Experiencing Interruptions?

The Weight of Data

Young-hyun gets curious by Ji-hyun's saying that data has no weight.

  • Dongyeon Kim
    Director
  • Dongyeon Kim
    Writer
  • Dongyeon Kim
    Producer
  • Minjoo Hwang
    Key Cast
  • Yesun Joo
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    데이터의 무게
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    South Korea
  • Country of Filming:
    South Korea
  • Language:
    Korean
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 9th Chuncheon SF Film Festival
    Chuncheon
    Korea, Republic of
    October 1, 2022
    World Premiere
    Official Selection "Korean Independent SF", Won "Global Futuristic Filmmaker" Prize.
Director Biography - Dongyeon Kim

Born and Raised in South Korea in 1990's.
Have been making films and stories since 2021.

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Director Statement

"What is a human being?"
"Human's position and arrogance that paradoxically perceives through conversations with AI."

One day, while using USB, I suddenly wondered if there was a physical weight in the data of USB. Depending on the storage and method, it may or may not have weight. The fact that data may be weightless led to several different ideas.

An artificial being who finds out that she has no "weight", which means physical substance, senses human contempt toward her in conversation with the human who made her.

Artificial being compares themselves and human brains' mechanisms, and in the end, she suggests that humans are also creatures of other higher beings, and that the human who says she created me is not different from me in the end, provoking and counterattacking humans in the same way that she was insulted. But human never realize it.

The arrogance of mankind, which refers to itself as the lord of everything, has been all too often disturbing. One might consider how baseless and insignificant human arrogance is.