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The Origin of Water (2009)

A man embarks on a journey to find the landscape in a painting left by his mother. There is a legend that since the Imjinwaeran War (Japanese invasion of Korea), it cannot be found with a destructive gaze. Eventually, the man gets lost in the forest, and a bird appears and attacks his eyes... The work was conceived by the director while he was walking along the Namhangang River in his hometown, Chungju, and saw the grave of a university student who died in the 6.3 incident (South Korean student movement). The politicians, the instigators of the incident at the time, try to destroy the river, while the dead person, whom no one remembers, quietly gazes at the river, an ironic situation.