Intention
A sensory music and art film built around hearing, the first sense that connects Joseph and Jiyoon.
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JOSEPH
A music and art film about sound, grief, memory, and the brief love that may have happened in life — or in a dream.
New YorkCellist · PainterMusic / Art FilmProducer: Theo Jang
JOSEPHIs this just the lingering whisper of dream, drifting in and out of my nights?Ian · Joohyun Kim
Joseph
A New York-based cellist who immigrated at ten and lives with the unresolved memory of his first love.
Jiyoon
A Korean painter returning to New York after five years for a Tribeca gallery collaboration.
SYNOPSIS
A short love that sounds like memory.
Joseph practices cello alone every day, caught between insomnia and dreams. One day, while busking on a New York street and playing Fauré's Après un rêve, his sound stops Jiyoon in her tracks. She feels an unexpected kinship and comfort in the music, and she approaches him first.
They continue to meet by chance in New York streets, bookstores, and cafes. Their private art worlds — Joseph's cello and Jiyoon's abstract painting — begin to overlap. As they share loneliness, memory, and desire, Joseph feels that he may finally be able to love again.
But Jiyoon has only three days left before returning to Korea. Joseph then confesses a devastating truth: the first love whose memory still haunts him was also named Jiyoon. What begins as coincidence turns into a mirror, forcing both of them to confront whether love can heal an old wound or simply repeat it in another form.
TONE
New York, cello, painting, dream.
- Musical and sensory rather than plot-heavy.
- Built around sound, voice, insomnia, and memory.
- A chamber-piece romance between two artists.
- The ending keeps a lingering ambiguity: whether the week was a real beginning, a dream, or a memory returning in another shape.