Actor's short film 'Dark Yellow' nominated for Asia competition at Japan's film festival
A poster for actress Koo Hye-sun's fifth short film “Dark Yellow” / Courtesy of IOK Company
By Kwak Yeon-soo
“Dark Yellow,” a short film directed by actress Koo Hye-sun, has been nominated for the competition section of Japan's Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022, an Academy Awards-accredited film festival that specializes in Asian short films.
The 24th edition is scheduled for June 7 to 20. Koo's fifth short film follows a woman who works at a flower shop and a man who becomes interested in her.
“Dark Yellow” premiered at the 2021 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, where the 38-year-old actor-director explained that her film is told from the perspective of women through the color yellow.
“Rather than wanting to purposefully make a film about women, I followed the perspective of women. By making this film, I wanted to understand both women and men. I wanted to deal with subjects such as our inferiority complex and vulnerabilities,” she said.
“Dark Yellow” is Koo's ninth project as a director and her first movie role since the 2017 short film “Father's Sword.”
Koo has been busy as an actor, filmmaker, artist, author and musician. Earlier in May, she released a New Age piano album to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut. Last year, Koo held her solo exhibition “Koo Hye Sun's Newage under Seo Taiji's Lyrics.”