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Oops.. instead of three hours I needed THREE DAYS.. but here, finally it comes ^^:

Already nearly 5 years ago, during and short after PIFF 2001(this was my 1st time in S.K.), I heard first time about Jeongdongjin Independent Film&Video Festival(jiff). At that time a jiff activist indeed adored about the next festival in the coming year(2002) and because of this, especially because of her(the activist’s) impressive and beautiful ideas for the event, I decided that I really MUST participate at this event.

So when I came the third time to S.K. – during the second time, I was staying about three month there, I got no possibility to contact the jiff activist – I decided to go alone to the coming jiff. But just coincidentally at that time the activist contacted me and we went together to jiff.

Actually - haha, like every year – jiff 2002 (http://jiff.co.kr/2005/page34.php) was held during the typhoon season. And the typhoon season at the East Sea, where Jeongdongjin is located, is really f.. strange. So when we arrived at the place where jiff should be held(a middle school in the small town of Jeongdongjin) the school yard was complete under water, just like a swamp.

And the activists already were on the way to prepare the open air screening, planned for two days later.

And here started the crazy, but very impressive story. For the air screen there must be a stabilization and it must be filled with water. So the organizers called the Jeongdongjin fire brigade to bring water. Harr, and because also S.K. is a service society the fire brigade came with a big truck with water. But the school yard, as I said before, was already a huge swamp. And the truck... sunk at least a half meter in the ground of the school yard. At next the organizers had to call a construction company to bring a crane to pull out the fire brigade truck. After the truck was out we had to order thousands of Kilogramm of new sand to fill out the huge holes, the fire brigade truck left over..

So finally we had many hours of really hard work for to prepare the air screen. And the next afternoon, after all damages were repaired, the air screen got holes, or whatever, and losed the air. Harrharr... many hours of f.. hard work and finally...

Anyway at that night, during the late afternoon guests(mainly movie freaks/directors/activists/ organizers..) especially from Seoul arrived, we’d a great opening party.. (with at least two hundred bottles of soju for about max. 40 people..)

The film festvival itself I could join, because of some "personal problems" I was forced to go back at the next day to Seoul.

But anyway.. this was one of my most impressive experiences I had until that time. Actually I’ll never forget this and many times I thought that it would be really great to make a (short) movie about this weekend in Jeongdongjin... (possibly a "tragic comedy"^^)

Well, I made, when I remember well, a lot of photos about this "two days of struggle with nature and technology" and somewhere in Seoul they must be still exist..??!!

Aeh~~ its just MY memory...