Minwook Oh
Eternal Brightness
Korea, Republic of, 2022, 125 min.
Eternal Brightness is about Jo Gap-sang’s novel “The Eye of the Night” published in 2012. Through the massacre and revolution, “The Eye of the Night” is closed by looking at the crowd of demonstrators. The scenery and the footprints of the character from the novel echo blurrily between the light and the dark like the story of a novel without illustrations. Ghosts in the novel who have lost their bodies and voices rise, refusing to be buried in history and eliminating the forgotten stories. And like the chorus that seems like it won’t stop, they, who became ghosts talk to us who are living their pitch-black future. “When the night is filled up with the darkness of the full moon, please draw an illustration of light with the story of today on the blank pages in the novel”. The Sun of the ghosts opens the eyes of the night between the forgotten death and the upcoming events.
Minwook Oh
Born in 1985, Busan. Oh has continued to work with documentaries and made numerous short films including, which was screened in the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival Korean Competition for Shorts. He then made Ash:Re (2013) and A Roar of the Prairie (2015), which received the Jury Prize and the Strong Will Prize at the 41st Seoul Independent Film Festival at the 41st Seoul Independent Film Festival. His film, Letters to Buriram (2019) takes the form of a letter addressed by the Taiwanese HSIAO Kaitsu to her mother in Buriram, Thailand, as she and OH visit Kinmen, an island in the Taiwan Strait where people live under the constant threat from People’s Republic of China as it is located at a stone’s throw from the mainland. OH is now the president of the Busan Independent Film Association.
