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Mr. Wayne in Seoul

'Mr. Wayne in Seoul' begins with the quiet absurdity of Albert Camus’ L’Étranger: a man detached from both origin and belonging.

This AI-powered music film transforms the song’s poetic monologue into a cinematic meditation on estrangement.
Through Seoul’s subways, cafés, and sleepless streets, Mr. Wayne wanders like a modern Meursault — lucid yet displaced, searching for meaning in a world fluent in polite indifference.
Generated and performed through AI systems, the film blurs the line between human memory and machine vision.

It asks whether an algorithm — born without a homeland — can share the same quiet despair, and perhaps, the same freedom, that Camus once called “the only coherent philosophy.”

  • HEEWOON LEE
    Director
  • HEEWOON LEE
    Writer
  • HEEWOON LEE
    Producer
  • Hyejung Bo
    Key Cast
    "Bo Hyejung"
    Remorse Kick, Outback doesn't serve Kangaroo
  • K-garoo
    Key Cast
    "K-garoo"
    Remorse Kick, Weight of the Dice
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 28, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,600 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    South Korea
  • Country of Filming:
    South Korea
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    AI gen tools 100%
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - HEEWOON LEE

Heewoon Lee studied Public Policy at the University of Tokyo and Business Administration at Seoul National University.

Before entering the creative field, he lived and worked across several countries, spending years in military and multinational environments — a life of constant movement and quiet observation.

Having experienced both belonging and estrangement on different continents, he began translating these emotional undercurrents into art and sound.

His creative career in music and film started in 2024, exploring the intersection of human emotion, technology, and poetic storytelling under the project name K-garoo.

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Director Statement

I am an outsider in both music and film — not by choice, but by truth.
For years I’ve lived between languages and systems, never fully belonging to one.
Mr. Wayne in Seoul was born from that distance: the quiet ache of being visible yet unseen.

AI tools gave me a new kind of empathy — a way to turn isolation into creation, and code into feeling. Through voice of our band's muse, machine-rendered images, I tried to let the film ask a simple question:

Can something — or someone — without a homeland still sing about home?