The work shows important scenes of the migrant woman Tran Thanh Lan’s diary. Vietnamese woman Tran Thanh Lan arrived in South Korea on January 11, 2008, in a trafficked international marriage, but after only five days of marriage, her mother-in-law and husband demanded a divorce. She was confined to her newlywed home until the divorce settlement date, when she fell to her death from the 14th floor of an apartment building a week before returning to Vietnam. This movie is based on her diary, the only thing she left behind.
Artist Park Kyong Ju archaeologically studied the Tran Thanh Lan's diary, interviewed and investigated the case, and handled the criminal and civil litigation on behalf of the deceased's mother. Park archaeologically studied the diary of Tran Thanh Lan, interviewed and investigated the case, and handled criminal and civil lawsuits on behalf of the deceased’s mother.
In March 2008, he covered the death of the deceased closely and reported it to alternative media. From 2011 to 2018, she wrote three plays based on the deceased’s diary and presented them as theatre plays. Starting in 2016, Park learned secret of the truth about the mysterious incident while interviewing the deceased’s mother for documentary film production, and worked to uncover the truth until the statute of limitations for the death case expired in early 2019.
This film introduces the final version of the diary that Park studied, page by page, and the X marks across the screen show the truth of the incident that was rejected by the prosecution during the reinvestigation.
This work is a single-channel video that is re-produced after being presented at Park’s solo exhibition in December 2019 as a 16-channel video installation.
This story has not yet been shown to the public in Europe.
