Jeong-jun Lee | 2020 | South Korea | 96' | EN subs

We are very happy to screen The Birth of Resonance as well as having the pleasure to welcome producer Sunah Kim and editor Kijung Park in person at Cavia! After the screening they will do a short talk about the film and will be available to answer some of your questions. 

The film closely follows master Seonbin Im, known in Korea as is Gyeonggi’s Intangible Cultural Asset No. 30, as well as his son, his only disciple, in the process of crafting a traditional Korean drum. They both work at a large atelier in the countryside which they share with a group of cats. We see the delicate process of pulling and cutting the skins of drums, nailing these to the drums, the following decorative paint work, and finally tuning the drum with the help of his ailing hearing. The film touches not only on the master's way of life, but focuses on cultural heritage and its preservation in contemporary Korea society. This finds expression in the collision of different values between the generations, the master on one hand and his son on the other, craftsmanship and the rise of capital while questioning what we miss in a high-tech digital world.