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The Eyeglasses

KO Duhyun
Korea 60min 4K color Documentary
Production StatusPre-production
Goal of ParticipationFinancing
LOGLINE

Disappeared death, returned glasses, people who still remember, and competing gazes

SYNOPSIS

The eyeglasses in front of the camera begin to bring back everyday memories about eyesight. When did their eyesight start deteriorating and how did they feel upon wearing glasses for the first time? Their conservation shifts to a pair of black horn-rimmed glasses that disappeared long ago. Thirty years ago, when the black horn-rimmed glasses emerged from the sea, they all began to perceive the world differently. Now that they are older, they cannot see the world without their glasses. Eyeglasses are uncomfortable and cumbersome sometimes. Memories fade over time, but the black horn-rimmed glasses emerge from beneath the ground after decades and ask if they are prepared to go through such difficult times again. The eyeglasses come up with their own answers.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

In the summer of 2014, I made a video record of the burial site of a young man who had died 25 years before. The portrait showed a curly-haired man wearing black horn-rimmed glasses. In August 1989, he went missing and was later found dead on a remote island in the South Sea. His friends went down there the next day, but even after two months of investigation, his death remained a mystery. In the end, they buried him with his glasses that had come up to the surface of the water. Years have passed, but the shadow of the deceased still hangs over their lives like a duty. At some point, their old, wrinkled eyes and the glasses covering them caught my attention. I wanted to talk about them as well as the dead man. How did the disappearance of the black horn-rimmed glasses change the way they viewed the world?

DIRECTOR
KO Duhyun
Studied journalism at university and documentary filmmaking at graduate school. His directorial credits include Burmese on the Roof, a feature-length documentary about several undocumented workers in Korea; Poltergeist, a short documentary about the rights of immigrant workers; and Loop Dreams, a feature-length documentary that explores the younger generation’s take on labor through yo-yos.
Director: Poltergeist (2017), Loop Dreams (2019)
Co-director: Burmese on the Roof (2016)
PRODUCER
YANG Juyeon
A documentary director and producer based in Seoul and Gwangju. Having directed three short documentaries, she is currently working on her first feature documentary titled My Missing Aunt. The Eyeglasses is her second collaboration with KO Du-hyun after Loop Dreams.
Director: Shadow of the City (2013), Song of Tomorrow (2014), The Trail of Grandma's Home (2015)
ProducerL Loop Dreams (2019)
CONTACTkeumyoil.film@gmail.com
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