Jesa

Made after the passing of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Jesa is a film dealing with themes of intergenerational trauma and its inherited effects on intimacy and family by reconstructing traditional Korean funerary rites. Exploring the effects of colonization and post-war memory on the intimate scale of family, Jesa uses song, stories and recollections of the past to wrestle with the questions of how we exist together after trauma. Made after the passing of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Jesa is a film dealing with themes of intergenerational trauma and its inherited effects on intimacy and family by reconstructing traditional Korean funerary rites. Exploring the effects of colonization and post-war memory on the intimate scale of family, Jesa uses song, stories and recollections of the past to wrestle with the questions of how we exist together after trauma. Made after the passing of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Jesa is a film dealing with themes of intergenerational trauma and its inherited effects on intimacy and family by reconstructing traditional Korean funerary rites. Exploring the effects of colonization and post-war memory on the intimate scale of family, Jesa uses song, stories and recollections of the past to wrestle with the questions of how we exist together after trauma. Made after the passing of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Jesa is a film dealing with themes of intergenerational trauma and its inherited effects on intimacy and family by reconstructing traditional Korean funerary rites. Exploring the effects of colonization and post-war memory on the intimate scale of family, Jesa uses song, stories and recollections of the past to wrestle with the questions of how we exist together after trauma.