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Poster & Trailer

Seoul Yeongdeungpo International Exteme-Short Image & Film has a tradition of making the trailer and poster with the film submitted that year. We carefully look into the submitted films and choose one. We put the message of the festival in the film and make the trailer and the poster as the face of this year's edition.

Anne Rietmeijer 'Empty Seats’

This year we chose 'Empty Seats' by Anne Rietmeijer.
Anne Rietmeijer depicted story of an empty seat going out of the theater, seeking for audiences into an animation.
It shows us a current society anxious to have communication with the audiences.

The 13th SESIFF is trying to put the wish of the seat, seeking for an audience, into the festival.
As our slogan, 'Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere', we wish to become the festival who communicates with its audiences through films.
We want to aim diverse communication by not only welcoming the audiences but also visiting them ourselves.
We have put our heart into the poster and the trailer.

Poster

The main poster is an image of a seat looking at the empty seats without the audiences.
The empty seat alone in the hollow theater looks lonely.
But we focus on the expectation in it.
It's a dark theater but the light on the seat is a light of possibility of hopes.
Although the seats are empty but we are thrilled because we know that the seats will be full again with the audiences.
It also represents our motivation to try endlessly for the audiences.

Trailer

The trailer shows our path.
It is not the path to 'where' but to 'wherever'.
The empty seat waiting for the audience in the poster, finally gets out of the theater in the trailer to reach to the audiences by itself.
The film festivals have to react to the recent changes.
We would combine the online and the offline,
allow the filmmakers and non-filmmakers to communicate with each other,
and make a chance to link the local community with the global world in our festival.
We will become the festival who communicates with the audiences under any circumstances and who approaches to the audiences with short but intense messages of extreme-short films.

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