2025 | U.S., South Korea | Short

A Real Christmas

  • No dialogue 12 mins
  • Director | Justin Jinsoo Kim
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Completed

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Collaging text and sound along with the grainy distortions of inkjet-printed imagery, Justin Jinsoo Kim’s (Personality Test, NYFF59) refractory archival dig pieces together the story of Lee Kyung Soo, an orphan of the Korean War adopted by a U.S. Naval officer in Westchester. With its careful manipulation of microhistorical fragments, A Real Christmas summons the neocolonial mythologies of the United States in the 1950s through its news media, uncovering traces of alternate voices and narrative lacunae.

Eulogy Memory Archive Identity Silence
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