SHORT VACATION
a film by Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol
FEATURE PRESENTATION
IN-PERSON SCREENING:
JUNE 11, 2022 • 3 PM
@ LIGHT HOUSE ARTS CENTRE
(1800 ARGYLE STREET, HALIFAX)
2020 / SOUTH KOREA / 79 mins
In Korean with English subtitles
In Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Han-sol’s Short Vacation, four middle-school girls ride to the last stop of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway in search of the end of the world. With just backpacks, snacks, and old cameras from their school’s photography club, they set out on a whimsical class project that soon becomes a quietly moving ode to facing the unknown.
Short Vacation is the first feature from Kwon and Seo, and mirroring the film’s adventure, it started as a school project, conceived during their studies at Korea’s Dankook University. The result is an assured, wise-beyond-its-years debut, one that forgoes narrative conflict to produce a cinema of pure joy, packed with moments as blissful and unstructured as summer break. —Evan Bower
A pre-recorded virtual Q+A with filmmakers Seo Han-sol and Kwon Min-pyo will follow the screening.
TRAILER
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Kwon Min-pyo
Kwon was born in Wonju, Gangwon-do in 1991. In the film department of Cheongju University, he directed the short film HEAT WAVE (2017). He entered the Graduate School of Film and Contents at Dankook University in 2018. He co-directed his feature debut film SHORT VACATION (2020) with Seo Hansol.
Seo Han-sol
Seo was born in Daegu in 1991. After graduating from the history department at Sungkyunkwan University, he entered the Graduate School of Film Contents at Dankook University in 2018. He co-directed his feature debut film SHORT VACATION (2020) with Kwon Min-pyo.