SEAL KIM KO

ShortMonodrama

The Journey of Yellow

A Film By
Kim Jae Bum (Seal Kim)
Form
Short · Monodrama · No dialogue
Location
Forest of Memory · Paengmok Harbour, Jindo

April 16, 2014.
I was in Bangkok
when the news came.

Some people would rather put this behind them. Others cannot. Remembering was the only thing left to do, and this short is what came of deciding to remember in the way a filmmaker can.

The image is black and white, and yellow is the only color that holds. The places where time stopped that day are left as a world drained of color, and inside it yellow alone is never erased. The journey turns out to be a matter of following that color.

It leaves the house and goes, one place at a time, to where the event still stands. There is no dialogue. The film follows one person's path and nothing else.

A yellow ribbon held in a hand
Inside the room, before leaving the house
A bookshelf
A wristwatch
On the road
A hand at the fuel pump
Dandelions in a field
A person walking among the trees
Forest of Memory
Hands tying a yellow ribbon to a tree
The Sewol memorial at Paengmok
The Sewol memorial at Paengmok
A yellow ribbon sculpture
Passing a wall covered in messages
A yellow ribbon held in a hand
A yellow ribbon pin on a jacket. The color has come back

Where the journey finally arrives

The salvaged hull of the ferry A person standing before the ship
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