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Like You Know It All  

(2021, 11’ 13”)


      


Kwang-Ja Lee, a counsellor at ‘Lifeline Korea’ has been listening to anonymous people’s stories for 45 years. Every day, she is all ears to stories that cannot be shared anywhere else. Image and sound react to it and creates new reflective space that seems to be the bottom of one’s heart. 

About thirty-seven people kill themselves every day in South Korea. And it often ranks the highest suicide rate in the world. These days, ‘Lifeline Korea’ gets around 60 calls a day. This film isn’t simply about emphasising serious suicide rate of South Korea, nor is it about providing solutions. Rather, it tries to shed light on how people and society should approach the suicide matter. How can we look into other people’s problems properly? And how can we change our attitudes to empathy? As seen in the title, ‘Like You Know It All’ questions our attitude towards other people’s problems. -> excerpt


- Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2021, Glasgow, UK, Normality? 2 - official selection World Premiere
- Seoul Ind Women’s Film Festival 2021, Seoul, KR, Official Selection, Short Film Competition
- EBS Int'l Documentary Festival 2021, Goyang and EBS TV, KR, Contemporary Docs Panorama  ︎︎︎작품 보기
- Jeju Hondie Film Festival 2021, Jeju, KR, Short Film Competition 
- Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2021, Jihlava, CZ, Short Joy - short film competition
- San Diego Asian Film Festival 2021, San Diego, US, Official Selection

*The full film is available upon request. Please do get in touch via email.


with Kwang-Ja Lee
Director, Producer, Cinematographer and Editor: Ji-Yoon Park
Sound and Music Composer: Ellie Beale  


    

   

    


<<A conversation with a suicide hotline worker in South Korea plays over footage of everyday life. Text, image, and voiceover combine to produce a stunning and moving portrait of the often thankless work of care.>> - written by San Diego Asian Film Festival


<<A very effective and moving exploration of the role of a telephone counsellor. Good use of abstract imagery which allows full engagement with the subject matter.>> - a comment from the doc alliance platform


(Interview was conducted only through audio, as counsellors in ‘Lifeline Korea’ have conversations via phone. After repetitively listening to these interviews, I filmed images that went along with the stories. There are no human faces throughout the film. Instead, there are places and movements that help audiences imagine the story of the interview better. It was all part of making intangible things observable. - director’s notes)



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