A fantasy road trip movie about Jisoo (25, female), who feels like a stranger and lives on the countryside of New York, meets mysterious people on her way to New York Airport to run away from her life, and reflects on her own life, and discovers who she is.

Director Biography

Doorim is an artist working across a range of media, film and video. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and now stays in Ithaca, New York, USA. Her films screened widely, including Misen-scene Film festival in Korea and in USA, and other countries. She has degrees from Syracuse University in the USA (M.F.A in film). She is a director of TOFU Studio production and her projects are focused on image and sound. She teaches film courses at Cornell University and Syracuse University.

Director Statement

I make films because it is the only language that is composed of both image and sound. As I am experimental film-maker, my projects are full of symbolic images and unrelated infinite sound. Through my work, the clash of images and unrelated sound makes the audience think subjectively. It makes the audience move to my world from their world and navigate the way by their meanings. I have no assurance that the audience will understand everything from my film that I intend. However, the audience can enjoy my film as playing puzzles in its imagination. The audience follows the hints and completes its own picture.

I am very much inspired surrealism and by my understanding of semiotics. My projects are mostly about communication and mutual understanding. My film is like a poem. The power of the poem is the space between words. In that space, readers take a breath and voyage to their imaginative worlds. Likewise, my projects are not only trying to show moving images but also trying to find the meanings between images like, emotion, time, weight or pressure of air. Therefore, my project is not following characters emotion or story. However, I am evoking audience’s emotion or touching memory, and allow the audience can find and feel the meanings. True understanding and communication are coming from behind the language and lines.