The narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring

childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history. After

running a scrap metal factory in Tokyo during World War II, his grandfather ended up in

Cheonggyecheon of Seoul where rundown small scale metal workshops still exist amidst

the gentrifying city. Drawing clues from fragments of dreams and myths relating to the

metal, the film reveals the secret alchemy of third world modernity in Cheonggyecheon

where these obsolete hand labors still survive. The film attempts to reveal how we shape

the metal through techniques such as sand casting and milling machines, only to find out

that metals had already shaped us into beings of an industrial society instead

Program Details

Format: 1x80 Minutes

Production Year: 2010

Supplier: Kelvin Kyung Kun Park Studio

Original Language: Korean (with English Subtitle)