Nine minutes. One name. Your whole identity crisis, served hot.
Acting
Lee Jung-eun's face does three acts of tragedy in silence.
Direction
Sweeney turns dinner table oppression into visual poetry.
Writing
Every 'David' lands like a tiny knife. Biblical, obviously.
Director
James Sweeney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
James Sweeney made this while developing his feature 'Straight Up,' another identity-bending exploration of queer masculinity.
The film weaponizes Korean-American family dinner dynamics specifically—the silence, the food preparation as emotional labor, the unspoken weight of inheritance.
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