The Troubled Troubadour
Synopsis
Two middle-aged Japanese men, a hubristic musician and his stoic companion, travel aboard a wheeled canoe on abandoned train tracks along the Southern coast of Korea. They fall into an ambush set by a tribe of wild Korean children, who mistake the musician for their long-awaited Mountain God.
Director
Forest Ian Etsler & Sébastien Simon
Screenplay
Forest Ian Etsler & Sébastien Simon
Director of Photography
Seongho Choi
Film Editing
Forest Ian Etsler & Sébastien Simon
Film School
Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea
Producers
Forest Ian Etsler & Sébastien Simon
Production Company
Estler + Simon
Cast
Hachi Kаsuga, Tetsu Kono, Hwajin Lee, Saneh Kang
Duration
23’
Born in 1982, Forest Ian Etsler is an American filmmaker and an MFA graduate from Dongguk University in Seoul. He also works as director of East-Asia programming for the Middle Coast Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana.
Born in 1983, Sébastien Simon is a French filmmaker and a graduate from the E.S.E.C film school and from Université Paris 1. He also works for various festivals in Korea and France. As co-directors, they produced The Troubled Troubadour (2016), Tetsu Kono’s crazy routine (2016), One-minded (2014) and The Urban Suite (2014).
