London-based Korean culture watchers will of course have come across Jason Verney of miniminimovie.com, Native Nomad Pictures and the NotsoKorean Podcast. Congratulations are due: his recent 30 minute film has been accepted by the new Kingston International Film Festival. Needless to say, there’s a Korean theme.
Reparation (UK Premiere)
Two semi-studious students living in ‘Korea-Town’ are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects (one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident), as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?