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Projects



A Table for Two

KIM Boram

  • South Korea
  • 90min
  • DCP, mov
  • color

History Gender&Sexuality Social&Human Interest

Synopsis

A mother holds her breath at the table. Her daughter is so sensitive that she could even feel the slightest sound of her mom¡¯s breath. Both of them hurry their meal, but all of their senses are at the bathroom. The daughter needs to take a pee, but she cannot get up. As soon as she goes to the bathroom, her mom¡¯s heart will be torn apart -she will think her daughter is throwing up what she just ate.
Pictures of them smiling hang around the house, seemingly happy on the surface. The daughter decides to break the daily silence. She gets into a new daily routine away from the place and the world of her mom. The mother looks back on what happened to herself and her daughter for the first time in ten years.

Review

It was in June 2019 when a charter school in Muju requested the screening of For Vagina¡¯s Sake.  At the end of its Q&A session, I was asked about my next project. I told them I was making a film about eating disorders.  Then Park Sang-ok, the vice-principal of the school, caught me as I was heading out of the school. Her half gray short-cut hair, wide smile and big bright eyes told me her history passing through contemporary Korea as she had dived into the workers' rights movement. She said, "my daughter has been suffering from anorexia for more than a decade." I stopped all interviews for the next project I was preparing, and started filming the two. Observing their lives led me to see human desire for relationships and acknowledgment. Also, I discovered human will for survival beyond the disease of starving without eating and the disease of eating until she vomits again. This film will break misunderstanding and prejudice of eating disorders. It is not about the look but overcoming the disease and the process of healing is to restore human dignity.

Director

  • KIM Boram

     

Credit

  • Producer¹ÚÁöÇý PARK Jihye