Synopsis

Aiming at sanctity but stepping into secularity; living in the secular world without becoming secular; and embracing sanctity and secularity at the border between the two – this is what a temple is. The Temple of Hemp Valley opens and closes with powerful drumming as if waking up people, and shows the everyday life of a temple, hidden from most worldly people, in a humorous but serious manner. There is an incinerator to burn garbage, but you cannot put garbage in; a Buddhist monk carefully draws a Buddhist painting and a disciple talks about the “hunger of art”; a stork flies with an elegant movement before peeing, and then a jet and helicopter fly across the sky; the monk enjoys a chestnut fallen on the ground and the following footage shows chestnuts in the container named “lunch box for squirrels”; the monk is dumbfounded when he finds out that he cannot plant a tree in the yard because it is concrete ground; and the monk cannot kill the otter that eats up the colored carps because it is a natural monument. These countless ironies all teach us that sanctity and secularity are not so different from each other. (KANG Seokpil)

Director

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  JI Hyun-young
  

  Born in Seoul in 1982, she graduated from Chung-ang University in 2007. Her debut film is Into the Blue.
  
  
  천강에 비친 달 The Temple of Hemp Valley (2011)
  푸른 너 Into the Blue (2007)

Credits

• Director, Cinematographer, Editor  JI Hyun-young

E-mail

• E-mail  stroll3@gmail.com