Seoul Yeongdeungpo International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival 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.
Jack PARRY, ‘Object of Life’
The film that SESIFF chose this year is < Object of Life > by Jack PARRY.
< Object of Life > shows us a story of a man who rolls up an object to the top of the mountain. His journey starts with a single object, but the mass of objects getting bigger and bigger as he climbs up the mountain makes the journey arduous and perhaps even impossible. It reminds us of our own story where we were born with nothing in hands and started the long trip, a life.
The 14th Seoul yeongdeungpo international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival compares this tough journey to the pain of creation. In every type of creation, including making films, creators keep moving forward with their objects carried, enduring its difficulty. No matter how far they would eventually reach, we hope that this journey, wonderful enough as it is, ends up with a mind-blowing scenery stretching out as far as the eyes. The poster and trailer of the 14th SESIFF was produced in this hope.
The poster presents a man rolling up the mass of objects in the mountain. On a closer look, however, it also seems like the man is hanging from it. The man struggling to carry it all the way on his journey looks like ourselves, which makes us root for him to reach the top of the mountain in safety.
Due to the obscurity of the man’s direction, up or down, the poster allows us to focus on the mingled figure of the man and his objects. If we can compare the objects to film, the man represents all people in the process of creation. We festival sincerely support them. We hope that the beautiful journey could reach the heart of the audiences who visit SESIFF and resonate in them.
The trailer captures the moments of climbing the mountain to the top. The objects which was little in the first place gets more massive and massive as it rolls up the mountain. The man keeps his journey despite all the obstacles. At last, he arrives at the summit and looks at the overwhelming scenery unfolded before his eyes for a while. Senses of achievement and freedom are seen on his face.
When we say the objects are a film itself, the scenery that the man was looking at the end of journey can mean the world after creation. Once film is created, the creator encounters greater and wider world than before. The world reaching out to the audiences in a theater gives a thrilling experience. SESIFF expects this wonderful world-exchange between artists and audiences to be realized at the festival. The trailer is made in a hope that you all can experience the whole new world through our intense and pleasant extreme-short films.
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