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외면 || Neglected (engl. title) || format: picture stills || South Korea 2006 || 10' 53"
(co-screenwriter, director, cinematographer, producer, editor)
(Korea Filmfest Muenster 2006; Dynamic Korea Film-Essay-Award; 15th Recontred de la Jeune Photographie Internationale, in Niort, France, October 2008; The 1st Seoul International Architecture Film Festival 2009)

  


변하는 것과 변하지 않는 것 || (un)changed (engl. title) || MiniDV || South Korea 2007 || 25' 06"
(screenwriter, director, producer, editor)
(Korea Filmfest Muenster 2007, Asian Hots Shots Festival Berlin 2009)

  


이별 || farewell (engl. title) || HD || South Korea 2008 || 16' 54"
(screenwriter, director, editor)

  


directed by Jay Hubert || 바보 한스 || Hans goes to Korea (engl. Title) || HDV || South Korea 2008 || 17’ 03’’
(lead actor, assistant cinematographer, co-producer)
(Hawaii International Film Festival 2008)

  


feature film directed by Neil Dowling || Ich Weiss Nicht Was || HD || South Korea, Ireland, Germany || in post-production (cinematographer, co-producer)

  


reflections || HD || South Korea 2009 || 5' 43"
(a film in collaboration with Neil Dowling)
(Festival Franco-Coréen du Film à Paris 2010)

 

All alone in a city full of people.  An outsider and a loner with no home, no roots, and nobody. Wandering the streets for food. Sleeping in the shadows.  And keeping his distance from everyone. Until he met her.
A couple returns - based on a promise - to a place at the Korean East coast. At the same location they spent a weekend together one year before. Anyhow they have broken up with each other in the meantime. As they have been out of touch for the past 6 months, both of them are insecure about (re-)meeting their ex-lover. Not only therefore is their reunion expected to fail...

 A couple – You-jin and Gyeong-min – split up in a fight. It is uncertain if the break-up is based on insecurities or their different viewpoints, as You-jin is gradually consumed by a religious cult.Time passes and You-jin visits Gyeong-min one day. After a momentary internal conflict, Gyeong-min opens the door but You-jin is nowhere in sight. She sneaks into Gyeong-min’s place upon seeing him leave . . . Meet Hans. He's 37, lives at home with his parents, and is hopelessly single. After failing miserably at finding true Bavarian love, he gets hooked on Korean dramas and decides to try his luck finding a girlfriend in Korea. Soon he discovers tasty Korean food, Seoul's colorful motels, and a nerdy young girl named Yun-ju - his perfect match. Now all he has to do is stand up to her jealous ex-boyfriend while trying to get over a bad case of diarrhea!

"SARANG HEY!" is the title of CONTENTed's new feature film. It tells the story of a man who finds it hard to live up to the ambitions of his wife and the expectations of society. When this becomes too much he decides instead to follow his impulses and discover what else the world has to offer. This sets him on a journey that will change his life forever.

For more information contact Neil Dowling at: downeil [at] gmail.com
[image shot by Enno Wichmann]

Reflections is a short film that takes us on a journey through unique physical and emotional landscapes that arise through a particular combination of elements that occur at this place and moment in time. The gentle swaying movements of the train, the rhythmic whirr and clacking sounds as it moves along the track, the changing light as night falls, the images of clustered concentrations of buildings and human activity that slide by the window as the train passes the towns and cities that line the route. With nothing to do but wait until they reach their destination, the passengers are left alone with their thoughts.
사람들로가득 찬 도시, 그 곳에 그는 집도 가족도 그리고 친구도 없는 이방인이자 고독한 자다. 먹을 것을 찾아 길을 헤매고 침침한 곳 이 그의 잠자리다. 그렇게 늘 모든 이들로부터 떨어져 지내왔다. 그녀를 만나기 전까지는... 재우와 혜진은 약속대로 동해의 그곳을 다시 찾는다. 일년 전 같은 날 함께 일주일을 보낸 그들만의 장소. 그 사이 둘은 헤어져 6개월이 흘렀고 헤어진 연인과의 재회가 자신이 없다. 못 볼지도 모른다는 걱정 외에 무언가가 그들을 초조하게 만든다. 연인이었던 유진과 경민은 격한 싸움 끝에 헤어진다. 두 사람이 이별한 원인은 확실하지 않다. 성격 차이였을 수도 있고, 소통 불가능한 개인적 문제 때문이었을 수도 있다. 그러나 하나는 명징하다. 유진은 점점 더 사이비 종교에 빠져들고 있다는 것. 시간이 지나고 상처가 아물 무렵 유진은 경민을 찾아온다. 경민은 고민 끝에 그녀를 향해 문을 연다. 하지만 그가 문을 열었을 때 그녀는 어디에도 없다. 숨어서 경민을 지켜보던 유진은 그가 떠나는 걸 확인한 후 집에 몰래 들어간다. . . 부모님과 살고 있는 그는 여자친구도 없는 한심한 인생이다. 그가 꿈꿨던 바이에른 출신 여자와의 진정한 사랑은 실패로 끝나고 그는 한국 드라마에 사로잡혀 한국에서 여자를 찾기로 결심한다. 곧 그는 한국 음식 맛과 서울의 호화스런 모텔들에 매료되고 똑똑하지만 세상 물정을 모르는 윤주라는 젊은 여자를 알게 된다. 그와 천생연분이 아닐 수 없다. 이제 그의 앞에 있는 것은 만성적인 설사병과 질투심 많은 그녀의 옛 애인과 맞서는 것뿐이다.


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