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Jero lives in South Korea. Marte lives in Norway. During a year they exchange video letters to each other with moments from their everyday lives, which seems entirely different. Or is it?  

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2017
Production country:
Norway
Co production country:
South Korea
Release date (international):
2017-10-12
Production company:
Mer Film AS
Financing company:
Nordnorsk Filmsenter AS
Producer:
Maria Ekerhovd
Jéro Yun
Sales agent:
Mer Film Sales

Director

  • Jéro Yun

     Jéro Yun, born in South Korea in 1980.  After studying art, he went to France to study at the Fine Arts School in Nancy (Beaux-Arts de Nancy), and then at the National Decorative Arts School in Paris, video/photo section (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris). In 2008, he became a resident at the Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts (Studio National des Arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy) where he made his first films.  Yun has made numerous award-winning films.

  • Marte Vold

    Marte Vold (b.1978 in Tromsø, Norway) was educated at Nordland College of Art and Film in Lofoten, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, from which she graduated as a cinematographer in 2008. Rooted in the dicipline of visual art as well as traditional filmmaking, Vold’s work as a director has been screened in both galleries and film venues. In 2012, the first four dialogues in the series Small Episodes was screened at The Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad. In 2013, Vold co-directed the feature Out of Nature with Ole Giæver. Out of Nature premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 as part of its Contemporary World Cinema Programme, and has been selected for the Panorama Section of the 65th Berlinale in 2015. Her most recent short, Totem, screened at several international festivals, among them New Directors/New Films in NY.

    Her recent work as a cinematographer include several award-winning short films, documentaries and music videos, among them Premature (dir. Gunhild Engel, 2012), To Open, To See (dir. Camilla Figenschou, 2012), And the Going is Good (dir. Vibeke Heide, 2011), Levi’s Horse (dir. Torfinn Iversen, 2011), The Beginning of No Night (dir. Camilla Figenschou, 2010), and documentary short St. Jørgens Plass (dir. Charlotte Thiis-Evensen, 2012), to name but a few.

    Marte Vold

Awards

2018:
Human International Documentary Film Festival
Honorable Mention
2018:
Jean Rouch International Film Festival
Prix du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel

Festivals

2017:
Busan International Film Festival
2018:
TIFF - Tromsø International Film Festival
2018:
Göteborg International Film Festival
2018:
Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival
2018:
Human International Documentary Film Festival
2018:
CPH:DOX
2018:
Nordic/Docs
2018:
Jean Rouch International Film Festival

Crew

Director:
Jéro Yun
Marte Vold
Cinematographer:
Marte Vold
Jéro Yun
Editor:
Nadia ben Rachid

Technical information

Format:
DCP 2k
Colour:
Colour
Length in min's:
80'

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