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Segimal- A Century's End
DIRECTOR: Song Neung-Han
Korea 1:43:00 35mm Color Korean 
 Producer: Lee Tae Won
US PREMIERE Through this series of absurd and ironic vignettes set in Seoul, Song Neung-han reveals something of the complexities of modern Korean society in the IMF era. He states his intention is to show an untarnished picture of Korea's darkest secrets, and he illustrates four strangely intersecting slices of Korea's contemporary society and their peculiar ironies. In the first section a screenwriter struggles with writer's block, discusses cinema, meets a man selling yo-yos on the street and completes his script. In the second, a millionaire pays to sleep with a college girl. Later she sleeps with his son and the next morning, as they drive downtown, he runs over the yo-yo man's yo-yos. In the third part, a young part-time lecturer is caught by his wife having an affair. He is imprisoned for adultery. Sharing his cell is a yo-yo seller jailed for murdering a young man who ran over his yo-yos. The last segment takes place in September 2000, as each of the film's protagonists describe their lives to the camera. Song Neung-han has worked as a screenwriter in Korea, with Im Kwon-taek's TAEBAK MOUNTAINS amongst his writing credits. Adapted from Ali Kayley, Edinburgh International Film Festival
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