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Virgin Road

KWAK Seoyoung, PARK Cheolhwan, OH Lahi, TU Bing Yun | Korea, Taiwan | 2024 | 26min

 

SYNOPSIS

In 1973, 25 Taiwanese female workers were drowned in a ferry accident while on their way to work at Gaoxiong’s Export Processing Zone. These female workers were buried collectively under Taiwan’s patriarchy system for being unmarried women, and they became otherized in the social realms of both nation and family and wandered around Gaoxiong as virgin ghosts.
This film is a road movie that follows along these female ghosts buried in ‘twenty-five woman’s grave’. This cinematic process traversing the political and social backgrounds of Asia, from Incheon in Korea to the locations of disasters in Gaoxiong, Taiwan, questions about the reality in which Asian women had to become ghosts in the urban history dotted with capitalism and industrialization.

DIRECTOR

KWAK Seoyoung

Debut short film, Unsited, was screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival. They work in various capacities across the art scene, including fine art, performance, and film.

PARK Cheolhwan

Cheolhwan Park studied photography as an undergraduate and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in film. He is interested in films that challenge modern systems. He has released both short and feature films at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and the Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NeMaf).

OH Lahi

Born in 1997. Bachelor majored in aesthetics and dance at Sungkyunkwan University and currently doing MFA in film&video at Korea National University of Arts. OH Lahi has directed experimental films and experimental documentaries, and written poetry, critique, and fiction. Her film&video works are mainly focused in realizing poetic eroticism and performative fiction using secret lyricism and gestures, especially with interests in female body and narrative. She has presented a number of works through exhibitions and film festivals since 2021.

TU Bing Yun

TU Bing Yun, born in 2000, is currently studying at Tainan National University of the Arts, majoring in documentary. I am currently filming a series of local chronicles in my hometown of Baishatun, and will continue to care about rural and environmental issues.

PRODUCER

JEON Gyuchan

Gyuchan Jeon. Professor at Korea National University Arts, teaching documentary, journalism and media cultural studies. Interested especially on the topics of collective memory, urban theories as well as trans-Asia media activism. Directed and produced such documentary films as Looking4Mia, Island.

TSAI Chin Tong

Chin-Tong Tsai is a professor of Graduate Institute of Documentary & Film Archiving at Tainan National University of the Arts. He holds the dean of college currently. His work focuses specifically on documentary, visual sociology and collective memory. His recent publication can be found in arts, cultural studies and mass communication journal.