Known for his compassionate depiction of social minorities in film, Kang Sang-woo expands his interests to consider the ecological relations between human and nature in his latest short, Forest Neighbor. Set on an at first quiet and mundane night, the work follows a brother and sister who stumble across a film shoot in a forest near their home. But as thunder and lightning begin to gather, the noises and effects caused by the crew’s equipment take the narrative on a fantastical turn, blurring the boundaries between realand unreal. Pivoting around encounters with nonhuman beings such as trees, and mushrooms, the work further highlights the invisible but intricate relationships that connect and inform the coexistences of disparate life-forms.
