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Education · Films about Film · Impaired

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2016
  • Running Time82min
  • FormatDCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
This film tells a story of the House of One Heart, a nursing center for mentally challenged people. The director moves to the center’s neighbourhood and records the life of the people living there. His camera becomes a mediator to help him enter this space and a friend to understand its residents. The film observes them as they deal with their symptoms with the help of medication, repress their anger for fear of being sent back to a hospital, bear with unfair payment for their work and an inability to to choose their own places to live. The director, as I, narrates in the film in the way that sounds more like a private confession rather than an explanation. This film is especially notable as it approaches the mentally challenged people not as an anonymous group but as independent individuals with their own names and pays attention to their lives and voices. It sees them not as a bunch of Alices in Wonderland but as neighbours living next door. It observes and records them closely with warm and intimate eyes.
Director
Director
SUNG Seungtaek
Sung started out in the lighting department of the film JSA(Joint Security Area) and moved on to being the director of photography for Flying Boys (2004). He has since been working as a director of photography on numerous commercials, stage performance videos, and more than ten films including You′re My Sunshine. Neighborhood is Sung’s directorial documentary debut.
Credit
  • Director
    SUNG Seungtaek
  • ProducerChangse LEE
  • CastWoosik JUNG
    Jaebong YOU
  • ScreenplayDahyeonn KIM
  • CinematographyJongkook LEE
  • EditorJiyun JEONG
  • MusicJunkyu LIM
  • Production Companydream design & communications
    dreamdnc@nate.com
Photo
BNK Busan Bank
GENESIS
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Co., Ltd.
NUTRILITE
NAVER
카카오 오픈채팅
PARADISE HOTEL BUSAN
Korea Exchange
POSCO
Shinhan Card
Debeach Golf Club
TOPTEN10
CJ CGV
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Busan Metropolitan City
Korean Film Council
BUSAN CINEMA CENTER