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Abraxas of Emotions: Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Excitement

An artist is being interviewed about the mysterious creature that she witnessed when she was a little kid. While drawing a composite of the creature, inside her mind, each of the four primary emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, and excitement), portrayed as scientists, operate various experiments to test what the mysterious creature is. In the end, the artist realizes something about what the creature and her emotions have in common.

  • Dakyum Breanna Lee
    Director
  • Dakyum Lee
    Writer
  • Dakyum Lee
    Producer
  • Cheolheung Joo
    Producer
  • Youjin Choi
    Key Cast
    "The Artist"
  • Woohyun Sung
    Key Cast
    "Joy"
  • Dohawn Ko
    Key Cast
    "Anger "
  • Roa Bae
    Key Cast
    "Sorrow "
  • Hyeonbeen Choi
    Key Cast
    "Excitement"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    희로애락: Abraxas of Emotions
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 29, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Korea, Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Korea, Republic of
  • Language:
    English, Korean
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 50mm, 16mm, Canon C200
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Fayston Preparatory of Suji
Director Biography - Dakyum Breanna Lee

Dakyum Breanna Lee is a writer and a movie director who strives to restore and protect the childhood dreams of people all around the world. Dakyum won the 2022 Achievement Awards in Writing (AAW) as one of the two international winners and various other writing awards. She is a leader and Art Director of GetCool Magazine and a children's book translator at Africa Asia Development Relief Foundation (ADRF). “Abraxas of Emotions: Joy, Anger, Sorrow, and Excitement” is Dakyum’s first movie, and it is one of Dakyum’s series of “Childhood” projects (Save your Bingbong, Wings, A Short Film Project, and a Raxip Studio Exhibition), which are designed to make people acknowledge the importance of their childhood dreams.

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Director Statement

In the process of defining my life as growing up, people tend to determine the essence of something through simple dichotomy or decimals; it is simply a "good" or "bad" nature, a "happy," or "sad" moment. While there are benefits to looking at the world on such a simple scale of judgment, if we can broaden our horizons and look at our lives from afar, we will come to realize that not just happy, angry, sad, and exciting moments, but all of those rainbows of emotions have comprised our life all together. 

In Hermann Hesse's novel Demian, Hesse writes about Abraxas, a god that symbolizes confrontation against the dichotomy of the world.

Through this movie, I want people to remember the lesson of Abraxas; in every moment in life, whether it is happy, exciting, or even heart-aching, all those pieces of emotions and adventure we meet are eventually beautiful brush strokes to compose a beautiful painting called life.