Short film

The Gaze

2023 · 9 min

A quiet, contemplative portrait that invites you to sit with an artist's inner search for home and self.

Directed by: Stacy Gardner
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ginok Song

Overview: Ginok Song, a South Korean artist living and painting in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, explores what home is, who she was, and where she is now. Ginok examines the choice to become an artist as a need to explore self-expression, an intimate journey to know herself through the female gaze.

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Directed by: Stacy Gardner
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ginok Song

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
art
memory
gender
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
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Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	1
Darkness	2
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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