Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 17 mins

′Dowsing′ refers to searching for a vein of water or ore with a rod. This film sketches one strange day in a child′s life, when all daily routines seem condensed into one. She loses her sense of reality, but is not exactly fantasi...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 10 mins

A man on a ragged raft drifts on a boundless ocean. With other rafts and boats just passing by, he gets accustomed to repeated despair. When an old dying man drifts toward the drifter, he turns and thrusts the old man out of his ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 40 mins

Scheduled in a private attic, a young man lives alone, intending to publish a book about his dreams. Upon waking up, he jots down on paper or tape records his dreams consisting mainly of his childhood memories. To recollect his pa...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1996
• 7 mins

A law of thermodynamatics, entropy measures the degradation of the universe, its "progression from order to disorder." While energy produces new matter, it also causes by-products. For instance, coal heats homes, but leads to poll...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 1996
• 78 mins

In 1949, the Nationalist government safely arrived in Taiwan, but the war between the Nationalists and the Communists continued to ravage the island of Kinmen. Situated between the two coasts, Kinmea was bombed by the Communist Ch...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1996
• 119 mins

Mr. Park, resident of a small Korean village, has died. His children and relatives attend the funeral to supposedly pay their respects. The eldest son should be mourning the most, but in this film director gazes the funeral as if ...

Special Programs

• United States
• 1996
• 97 mins

Set in Minnesota in 1987, this reality-based drama discloses the story of Jerry Lundegaard, a car salesman so deep in debt, he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife to collect ransom from her affluent father. The scheme collap...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1996
• 108 mins

Jun-Sub, a famous middle-aged writer, learns that his mother has died. At the traditional Korean funeral, the guests don′t seem saddened by her death, a senile woman for the past five years. Family conflicts surface when Yong-Soon...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 112 mins

What is first love? When Young Shin, a beautiful freshman majoring in Fine Arts, first meets Chang-Wook, a visiting lecturer for her theater group who is ten years her senior, he just seems like a filthy chain-smoker and a worn-ou...

korean Retrospective

• Korea
• 1996
• 115 mins

The first son, an executive at a computer company, discovers his hometown, where his parents still live, will be submerged when a new dam gets built. They move in with him, but find city life difficult because of the hectic pace a...