Love in the Shadows
In 2008, American independent filmmaker Jon Jost traveled to South Korea, where he became a professor of graduate studies in the film department at Yonsei University in Seoul. In collaboration with tw…
Love in the Shadows
In 2008, American independent filmmaker Jon Jost traveled to South Korea, where he became a professor of graduate studies in the film department at Yonsei University in Seoul. In collaboration with two of his students, Moon Si-Hyun and Lee Sang-Woo, Jost helped create this three-part comedy-drama about the many guises of love. In Karma, Lee Sang-Woo directs himself in the leading role as a man who can't find his soul mate until he discovered a discarded mannequin and falls in love with the dummy. Moon Si-Hyun's segment, The Silence, concerns itself with a man who speaks at length about his spouse, but she only laughs or speaks in his memories -- in the present, she never utters a word. And Mr. Right, Jost's contribution, is a blunt portrait of a man who wants to get out of a failing relationship at any cost. Love In The Shadows was an official selection at the 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival; Jost's film has also been screened separately as a short subject. —Mark Deming
Love in the Shadows
Comedy,Drama
Film Details
In 2008, American independent filmmaker Jon Jost traveled to South Korea, where he became a professor of graduate studies in the film department at Yonsei University in Seoul. In collaboration with two of his students, Moon Si-Hyun and Lee Sang-Woo, Jost helped create this three-part comedy-drama about the many guises of love. In Karma, Lee Sang-Woo directs himself in the leading role as a man who can't find his soul mate until he discovered a discarded mannequin and falls in love with the dummy.
Moon Si-Hyun's segment, The Silence, concerns itself with a man who speaks at length about his spouse, but she only laughs or speaks in his memories -- in the present, she never utters a word. And Mr. Right, Jost's contribution, is a blunt portrait of a man who wants to get out of a failing relationship at any cost.
Love In The Shadows was an official selection at the 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival; Jost's film has also been screened separately as a short subject. —Mark Deming.