Correspondences and repetitions: echoes of Water Drops painter Kim Chang Ryeol’s work

- Water
Water is a recurrent element in the film, repeatedly shown in the many different forms it can take: rain, the sea, a glass of water, a puddle…. This playful treatment is not only a literal reflection and refraction of the painter’s elemental subject-matter, but also of his way of being in the world. The object is to immerse the viewer in this obsession and the...more

Correspondences and repetitions: echoes of Water Drops painter Kim Chang Ryeol’s work

- Water
Water is a recurrent element in the film, repeatedly shown in the many different forms it can take: rain, the sea, a glass of water, a puddle…. This playful treatment is not only a literal reflection and refraction of the painter’s elemental subject-matter, but also of his way of being in the world. The object is to immerse the viewer in this obsession and the microscopic attentiveness it entails in the artist’s everyday life.

- Repetition
The film pivots on the radical nature of Kim’s minimalist and repetitive oeuvre through scenes built on the repetition of shots, sounds, words. One of the methods we use to this end is that of repetitive buildup: for example, a woman bows down, gets up, bows down again, ten, fifteen times. The sheer accumulation of these gestures in daily life.

- Detachment
In his work as in his life, Kim has a special relation to the world made up of detachment and patience, which the film seeks to observe, express and sometimes imitate. So we take the time to patiently show the world around Kim – the streets of Seoul and Paris, the nature around his house, the news he listens to on the radio – with the same appetite, the same detachment, that he has himself.less