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How To Make Kimchi (or How To Be Korean)
USA, Netherlands | 2021 | Color | Sound | 14min 28sec | Digital
Select Screenings
2021 Antimatter - Victoria (CA)
2021 Expanded Short Competition - International Human Rights Film Festival - Vienna (AT)
2021 International Competition - Beijing International Short Film Festival - Beijing (CN)
2021 Night Of The Experimental Film - L1 (NL)
2022 One song is very much like another and the boat is always from afar - Times Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
2022 Limburg Film Festival, Venlo (NL)
2022 Chicago Youth Film Festival, Chicago (US)
2022 ULTRACinema - Mexico City (MX)
USA, Netherlands | 2021 | Color | Sound | 14min 28sec | Digital
Select Screenings
2021 Antimatter - Victoria (CA)
2021 Expanded Short Competition - International Human Rights Film Festival - Vienna (AT)
2021 International Competition - Beijing International Short Film Festival - Beijing (CN)
2021 Night Of The Experimental Film - L1 (NL)
2022 One song is very much like another and the boat is always from afar - Times Museum, Guangzhou (CN)
2022 Limburg Film Festival, Venlo (NL)
2022 Chicago Youth Film Festival, Chicago (US)
2022 ULTRACinema - Mexico City (MX)
Synopsis
Using intimate family footage, folk tales, and archives of the Korean War, How To Make Kimchi (or How To Be Korean) wrestles with questions of belonging.
Directors Statement
How To Make Kimchi (or How To Be Korean) is incidentally not a film about how to make kimchi. Weaving together archives and intimate homemade footage the piece rests itself on the anchor of family. Through this anchor point the past is explored and reconciled with imagery from the Korean War and ideas of nationality are questioned and probed. What does it mean to be Korean? What does it mean to be American? Will I lose all my connection to my Koreanness when my parents pass?
Wrestling with these questions, the piece acts as a patchwork, picking up and stitching together folk tales, family dialogue, and the past, hoping with an open honesty and love to find answers to the question of belonging.
Using intimate family footage, folk tales, and archives of the Korean War, How To Make Kimchi (or How To Be Korean) wrestles with questions of belonging.
Directors Statement
How To Make Kimchi (or How To Be Korean) is incidentally not a film about how to make kimchi. Weaving together archives and intimate homemade footage the piece rests itself on the anchor of family. Through this anchor point the past is explored and reconciled with imagery from the Korean War and ideas of nationality are questioned and probed. What does it mean to be Korean? What does it mean to be American? Will I lose all my connection to my Koreanness when my parents pass?
Wrestling with these questions, the piece acts as a patchwork, picking up and stitching together folk tales, family dialogue, and the past, hoping with an open honesty and love to find answers to the question of belonging.