Synopsis | Saekdong / Colour of Korea is an experimental short film by HAN Okhi that begins with a question: if Korea is often imagined through the colour white, what other colours might reveal its culture, history, and spirit? Using double exposure, hand-coloured film, music, and fragmented visual composition, Han turns her gaze toward the vivid patterns of children’s “saekdong” clothing, their innocent movements, and the free rhythm of play The film. reimagines Korean cultural heritage through experimental form, searching for a more personal and expansive sense of Korean colour.

Programmer's note | The history of Korea as the “the white-clad people" (Baekui Minjok, 白衣民族) carries within it a devotion to purity, clarity, and resistance. In the long image of white garments lies a history that has burned fiercely and brightly, marked by their endurance, dignity, and an unyielding spirit. Yet, Korea has never simply belonged to white alone. Its passion, humour, playfulness, laughter, and multiplicity can bloom through saekdong: bands of colour that hold the joy and vitality of a culture in motion. Like the freedom of children, like their games, like the laughter rising from their play, Korea opens itself in vibrant colours. Through Han Okhi’s experimental gestures, the film dresses Korea in another layer of beauty. The film becomes a cinematic act of re-seeing the Korean tradition where it is not preserved still, but awakened through colour, music, and light.