![]() In a country which is a natural peninsula and has abundant precipitation, water and its rice-farming agriculture is important. "Sometimes shaman counseling is a sip of water to people," Cho explains. The film title 'A Sip of Water' still came from this very same practice of shamans even today helping out in ordinary problems. A long and extended Christianization of the Korean peninsula has somehow obscured this fact ("but even Christians have the experience of shamanism" Cho notes), yet this practice of counselling and healing has continued to flourish. Even though she didn't have herself a shaman in her family, she was exposed early on to this underappreciated ancient culture of shamanism and its artistic manifestations. " I think every Korean has experience of shamans and shamanism" Huyna Cho tells Zippy Frames. The film has already been selected in the competitive section of major festivals, such as Fantasia International Film Festival (Ontario, Canada) and Odense International Film Festival (Denmark). Her UK work culminated in the transparently compassionate 'A Sip of Water', a 2D computer animation film about a female shaman and her relation to both gods and the common people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having studied both in Kaywon Art University and Hong-ik University in Korea, she moved to Royal College of Art (before the pandemic) to study for an M.A. Hyuna Cho South Korean animation director has a sensitivity for the extraordinary, sometimes hidden below our ordinary life chores and appreciation. ![]()
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