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Blanket Wearer

 
PARK Jeongmi
Korea 96minFHDColorDocumentary
Status Post-Production
Purpose Film Festival Screening, World Sales
LOGLINE

A story of the transformation of the protagonist who faces a financial crisis after losing her job in London and embarks a ‘living without spending money for one year’ project.

SYNOPSIS

The protagonist sets out to find ways to solve the three necessities for survival—a place to sleep, food, and transportation - without spending money. She rides a bicycle that was given for free and helps at organic farms and self-sufficient communities in exchange for room and board. In London, waste is the key for survival. Illegal squatting that occupies abandoned buildings and boat sitting for a friend who owns a houseboat goes on a trip, and skip diving for discarded food. When out of the UK, she hitchhikes to travel. Living in the wild with nature loving people, she reconnects with nature. Traveling in a large caravan with a group of twenty hippies, immersing herself in the flow in pursuit of true freedom and peace. By the time it was the one-year anniversary of the project, she was in Greece. She continues her journey toward the East searching for the truth. While she travels through Türkiye, Georgia, Iran, and India without money, she seeks answers to the purpose and meaning of life.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Can we live without money? The deadly high rent and cost of living in London, UK. Every breath you take costs you money. The project begins with a furious question when a young person who suffers from a financial crisis and depression after she has been laid off from her job at the London office: "Is there no life if no money?" Amidst the fear of survival, loneliness wanting to be loved and the emptiness of life, the protagonist struggles to solve everything with money, only to find herself thoroughly trapped in the cycle of labor and consumption. She realizes that her life, time, and existence are all being used solely to make money. In order to find a way to live without having to earn money, the protagonist decides to live for the sake of being alive. She is not going to spend any money. What does a man live for? Who am I? How should I live? Follow the protagonist's questions about survival, love, and self-realization, and explore the true world in the world without money.

DIRECTOR
PARK Jeongmi
After completing the two-year project of 'living without spending money for one year,’ she returned to Korea in 2016. In 2022, she published a book titled Living Without Touching Money which tells the story of her journey. Now she is living in a deserted house at the foot of Mountain Jirisan and is in the process of making her first feature film, Blanket Wearer.
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