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Joseph salutes awkwardly as he looks at his new military haircut. He stares and looks at a person he doesn’t recognize. With his father, Joseph stores his belongings in a church attic before he flies to South Korea to serve the military. The pastor jokes about his broken leg while Joseph contemplates on telling his self harm. While storing his saxophone in a dusty attic, he finds an old collection of paintings from a past student. He contemplates on the painting. Without much reason he pulls out his saxophone and simplet lets the painting guide his flow of playing.


Haneol Lee
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Haneol (John) Lee or 이한얼 (b.2002, South Korea) is an independent filmmaker who is an immigrant from South Korea. Lee's work dives deep into the Korean-American identity and explores themes of the Asian-American diaspora such as generational trauma, language code switching, and forgiveness through a contemplative lens. First Night is Lee's debut work as a filmmaker and it has played at BFI and been a part of the Short to Feature Lab (Thunder Road, Beta Test)

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