In summer of 2014, a white flag, a symbol of surrender, is hung on the Brooklyn Bridge of New York, the heart of America, instead of the American flag. While every media in U.S. was alert to that unprecedented issue with articles titled with ‘Brooklyn Surrender’, the city and the nation were in panic fearing unknown enemy’s attack and denouncing poor security system of N.Y.P.D. After one month, the surrender thing was revealed as a performance played by German artists to commemorate ‘beauty of public space’. The film reconstitutes the process of collision between the range of artistic expression and limitation of common idea of society while showing mass media’s speculative reports during the time. What we fear in our life is mostly spread by unverified threats (or nonexistent) reproduced by collective sense. When we resist other values taking as threats, not as understandable ideas, ‘Symbolic Threat’ may drive us out to bigger isolation and rupture. Just like the situation of North and South Korea right now in 2016. [Wook Steven Heo]