A blind director restores her own footage of buried history—through her daughter's eyes.
Director Park Soo-nam, a second-generation Korean resident in Japan who is losing his eyesight, decides to digitally restore 16mm film she shot a long time ago, relying on her daughter Park Ma-eui's eyesight. The blood, tears, and numerous corpses of Koreans living in Japan are clearly engraved in the film filmed over 50 years.
Direction
Blind director's spatial memory guiding restoration choices—unprecedented.
Editing
50-year footage gaps become emotional punctuation, not absence.
Production
16mm degradation as metaphor—history literally crumbling before us.
Director
Park Soo-nam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
KR
JP
