JESA

This film is only available to viewers in Southern California (excluding San Diego County) from October 1, 2020 at 12pm PT to October 31, 2020 at 11:59pm PT. Click here to watch the film on Eventive.

Using stop motion animation, the filmmaker interviews and questions her parents about jesa, a ritual tradition of Korea.

CREDITS:
Director: Kyungwon Song
Music: Roger Sungphill Kim

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Dead to Me

From professional mourners to a withering town, this program invites you to embrace death with open arms. What are the rituals with which we honor our dead, mourn the movements of the past, and heal collectively? Let us find out in a line-up that merges fiction and non-fiction. — Udval Altangerel