Escaping the extreme heat, K takes a vacation to a highland retreat, only to be disappointed by a landscape far from what he saw online. To kill time, he takes photos with his smartphone and unexpectedly encounters a mysterious woman in his hotel room. He begins photographing her in earnest, and what began casually turns into deep immersion. Through the lens, the scenery transforms into unfamiliar yet beautiful images, and K becomes captivated by a world he had never truly seen. In a place detached from his expectations, his quiet journey unfolds—gently questioning the boundary between imagination and perception.

 A doodle is, in essence, a message with something left out. Its nature lies in this very incompleteness and ambiguity. It does not aim for perfect clarity; its destination is uncertain. It may linger on the page for its own sake, or it may stand out more sharply than any direct appeal. Kim Eungsu’s Scene with Doodles merges this way of being with cinematic practice in a work of essayistic filmmaking.

The film draws its material from photographs and jotted notes made by its narrator during a trip to the Vietnamese highlands. Unlike a typical travelogue, it moves toward no fixed destination. The narrator visits no landmarks; instead, he stays in his hotel, following chains of thought sparked by the view from his balcony. The words and doodles that spill forth are by turns flippant, sardonic, and unexpectedly insightful.

Can losing one’s way not also be a journey? The narrator’s stance finds a strong resonance in the language of cinema itself. Rejecting linear logic, the film seizes on moments of intuitive fascination from the myriad possibilities before the eye, stitching them together—as if to ask, quietly but insistently: why not meet a landscape, or an object, this way?

 This film began with a simple premise: that cinema need not have a predetermined goal. Like a rugby ball that can bounce in any direction, it embraces moments of chance and rupture, trusting that this improvisational spirit can lead the work toward destinations unknown even to its creator. 

• Producer김응수 KIM Eungsu
• Cinematography 김응수 KIM Eungsu
• Edit 김백준 KIM Baekjun
• Sound 이성재 Seongjae LEE

KIM Eungsu

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