벗어날 탈 脫 / NOT ONE AND NOT TWO

SYNOPSIS

Young-mok has an unknown disease. His girlfriend Seon-hwa asserted that he would get better after taking medicine, but he intuitively felt death approaching. He cut off all of his relationships and persisted in Zen practice in a new house to achieve Enlightenment. The path to enlightenment is long, and death seems to come closer little by little. As time goes by, he falls into single koan <無 non-being> Then one day, things begin to appear to him.

Meanwhile, Ji-woo has to do a new exhibition soon, but it is painful that she cannot do new work. She is afraid of the end, so she has only drawn the moment just before reaching a conclusion. The exhibition curator recommends trying the animation again. She has avoided animation because of the idea that the story will eventually end. She struggles to find a new form. Then a strange man begins to stand out to her.

DIRECTOR’S BIO

Born in Dae-gu, 1977 Seo Bo Hyung received B.A in time art from Kaywon School of Art and Design, completed a special course of media art and graduated from Ecole National Superieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy. And with media art and experimental films, he participated in various group exhibitions in France and Korea such as Jeune Creation, La Nuit Blanche and had 2 solo exhibitions A Sabotage Film and A Scene.

He has been working on movies since 2016 Broken Sleep. Directed in 2018, Soh was invited to the international competition section of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and the absolute nightmare section of the Mise-en-scene short Film Festival, and won a special award for judges and Face In Shorts award at the Asiana International Short Film Festival.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

不一不二

It is the philosophy of Seon (Zen) Buddhism that you and I are neither one nor two, and that we are neither the same nor different. Young-mok seeks enlightenment; and Ji-woo, an inspiration. As their paths are interwoven into a story that is neither one nor two, they breathe into each other and coexist.

脫 or Tal (meaning “release”) is a letter that embodies the smiling face of a person who has freed oneself from the body. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, where individuals are cut off from one another, I hope this movie conveys the bliss that comes from meeting with others, freeing us from all bondages.

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