Yeon Sang-ho: Short Works

The Hell - Two Kind Of Life Yeon Sang-ho│2006│ 34m 56s│Color The - Hell Kind Life Of Two is a two-part series about a man and a woman facing opposite afterlife sentences. Part 1. An ordinary office worker is prophesied by an angel to die and go to hell. Terrified of eternal torment, he flees his impending doom, only to confront a mysterious landscape he once saw on a cheap calendar. Part 2. Jaeyoung, an art instructor, learns she will die in five days and enter heaven. She calmly prepares for death, but her boyfriend's desperate plea to run away makes her waver between accepting her fate and her lingering attachments to life. Contrasting desperate humans with apathetic divine beings, the film explores how the fear of the afterlife shapes our present existence and choices. Created via rotoscoping based on director Yeon Sang-ho's own acting, this early work lays the foundation for his…