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DURING THE INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION OF KOREA IN THE 1970S AND 80S, WORKING AND HOUSING CONDITIONS GAVE RISE TO NEW LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENTS AMONG THE WORKERS. I MADE THIS SHORT FILM AS A DIRECTOR ORIGINALLY FOR AN EXHIBITION IN SEOUL, WHICH ILLUSTRATED THIS INDUSTRIAL PERIOD IN SOUTH KOREA.

IN ADDITION TO DIRECTING THIS VIDEO I TOOK ON THE ROLE AS A CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR AND COLORIST.

I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS FILM TO THE WORKERS OF GURO INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHO APPEAR IN THIS VIDEO.

DIRECTOR

NILS CLAUSS

PRODUCTION

A CONTENTED PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH GEUMCHEON DISTRICT OFFICE, SEOUL

VIDEO


SCREENSHOTS


Sunlight streams into a room with a small platform and an empty, dusty office chair in an abandoned school in South Korea, from Nils Clauss's award-winning short film Bikini Words.
Looking down through ceiling cut-outs in an abandoned factory, an empty sofa sits in the middle, evoking memories of the past, from Nils Clauss's award-winning short film Bikini Words.
A large mirror ball rotates under shifting colored lights, hanging from the ceiling of an old-style Korean dance hall, from Nils Clauss's award-winning short film Bikini Words.
An elderly woman, a former factory worker during Korea's textile industry boom, stands in a so called Bikini closet within her cramped bee hive home, from Nils Clauss's award-winning short film Bikini Words.
An aged former factory worker sits on the floor beside a small table with a chicken cage, one chicken inside and one outside, in his cramped bee hive home from Nils Clauss's award-winning short film Bikini Words.

PRODUCTION


PRODUCER

KUIOCK PARK

CAST

SUNHEE HAN, OHSOON KIM, HANSOON KHO, CHANGWOO LEE, SUNMI KHO, YOUNGMI KIM, SANGSOON PARK, YUNKU KIM, JONGSOO KIM, YOUNGIM KIM

NARRATOR

YOUNGIM KIM

WRITER, DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER

NILS CLAUSS

1ST ASSISTANT CAMERAMAN

SEONGIL LEE

GIMBAL OPERATOR

SEONGIL LEE, NILS CLAUSS

GAFFER

HYOHOON PARK

POST-PRODUCTION


EDITOR & COLORIST

NILS CLAUSS

MUSIC

“NIELLO TRYST” BY OFFTHESKY

SOUND OPERATOR

MINJAE LEE

SOUND MIXER

UDO LEE

GRAPHIC DESIGN

DESIGN STUDIO KERB

FONT ANIMATION

JEAN JULIEN POUS


LOCATION SUPPORT

MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, NORTH KOREAN-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION, PYONGYANG KIM WON GYUN CONSERVATORY

WORD INDEX

SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE

SPECIAL THANKS TO

GEUMCHEON DISTRICT OFFICE, URBAN INTENSITY ARCHITECTS, JAY HUBERT, NEIL DOWLING


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CONTENTED

OFFTHESKY

GEUMCHEON DISTRICT OFFICE

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