A love story comes to an end when a woman sets out in search of a shamanic god. Director Kelvin Kyung Kun Park takes the trauma of a spurned lover as the starting point for his own search for a god. He makes several finds across various narrative strands – among whales in the sea, in a shipyard, at a steelworks. All of them are giants of their respective times: vast, sublime, godlike.

Park's imagery also evokes the divine: embers and steel, sparks and fire; people dwarved by huge cogwheels, robbed of their individuality. A brave new world in which workers produce modern industrial goods, even as industry has long since been producing the modern worker. Work is a god we have submitted to. Yet every existence is temporary and fleeting, which applies in equal measure to both relationships and gods.

4th Berlinale, Forum - "NETPAC AWARD"

Asiatica Filmmediale, Rome, Italy - "Best Documentary"

Taipei Documentary Film Festival- "Author's POV AWARD"

Wildflower film awards, Korea- "Best Cinematography"

Program Details

Format: 1 x 98 minutes

Production Year: 2014

Original Language: Korean (with English Subtitle)