Synopsis

The surreal and illusionary journey in a mysterious hospital, reshaping our ways of seeing physical beauty. A girl is given a choice between two images of her face, “Before” and “After”. After the odd journey she finds her beauty, but only to realise it became something very different.

Beomsik Shimbe Shim

BeomSik Shimbe Shim grew up in South Korea. He majored in fine art and held several exhibitions and media art shows in Seoul and New York. He moved to the USA in 2003 to work on his own animated shorts, after studying experimental  animation at CalArts. His personal shorts were screened at many film festivals in various countries, along with SIGGRAPH (US), Arcipelago IFF (Italy), LA County Museum of Arts (U.S.), Asia Digital Art Award (Japan), Neuchatel IFF (Switzerland). In addition to The Wonder Hospital, he made The Anamorphosis Trap (2008) and PGi-13 (2004).