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There are no words

My film, THERE ARE NO WORDS, addresses personal and collective trauma, imperfect memory, deception and the political and social utility of silence to perpetuate dominance.

Over 40 years ago, my mother died by suicide. I was 12 years old at the time. The family I grew up in was an abusive one, my father, an agent with the Korean Central Intelligence Corporate (KCIC) was trained to hurt people to protect dictatorial state power. With this film I explore unstable memories, transgenerational trauma and the ways in which social & political conditions frame our most intimate relationships.

Silence and shame followed my mother’s suicide. I realized that if I didn’t make this film, a default narrative would take over that amounted to a permanent death of who she was and could have been. I used this documentary to give life back to both of us.