I wanted to find a theme that offered me a plenty of visuals to play around, then came up with the idea of visualizing 'Circus'. At that time, I was very fascinated by primitivism and decided to adapt its art style into the film as well.
On top of that..... I also used pointillism (getting inspired by Seurat's) for creating imagery, which... was the craziest idea that I've ever had in any animation productions by far.... without any doubt. After 'DOTTING' every single image with 4~5 layers of cells for the amount of 6 minute lengths of traditional cell/drawing animations, my poor arm gained some kind of abnormal muscle cramps that lasted for a while.

I don't remember sleeping much for that whole year. I couldn't eat that well either for I didn't even have money for the film production. So many difficulties and obstacles behind the scenes... but I have to admit that I had the best time working on it, and the most memorable experience because of all that...

Award:
1996, Silver Prize, Korean Animation Awards (대한민국 영상대상)

Screenings:
1997, Leipzig Festival of Documentary and Animated Films (Leipzig, Germany)
1997, Future Art Short Animation Film Festival (Seoul, Korea)
1998, Puchon International Film Festival (Puchon, Korea)
1999, Annecy Int'l Animation Festival: MIFA-Korean Short Animations (Annecy, France)
1999, Korea Japan Youth Film Festival (Asan, Korea)
1999, Korea Short Animation Festival (Seoul/ Pusan/ Daejun/ Kwangju/ Korea)
1999, Kyungnam Cartoon Festival (Kyungnam, Korea)
2001, Animamundi (Rio de Janeiro/ Sao Paolo, Brazil)
2001, Cinanima (Espinho, Portugal)
2001, Rencontres Int'l du Cinema d'Animation de Wissembourg (Wissembourg, France)
2001, Korean Independent Animation Special Screenings (Seoul, Korea)
2005, Solstice Lake Film Festival (Stillwater, USA)
2005, Offbeat Film & Animation (Minneapolis, US)
2006, Rooftop screening: Solstice Lake Film Festival (Minneapolis, USA)
2006, Jeju Inde Film Screening (Jeju, Korea)
2009, CTN Animation Expo (Burbank, CA, US)