Dinner Table

Produced and Directed by: Song E. Kim
Animation Running Time: 3 minutes
Completion Date: June 2006
Dinner Table
Boy and girl and dinner table

On an ordinary day, a couple is having dinner. The girl casually asks him how the food is. He briefly answers. However, his manner of speaking takes her to her psychological journey in which she explores what is really happening in their relationship.

While the conversation at the dinner table remains ordinary and mundane, the images jump back and forth between the dinner table and her mind's eye.

The girl imagines that she is approaching him as a flamingo, nibbling at him and moving as gracefully as possible. Then, she is sitting in front of a vanity. As the dinner conversation continues with her describing her day, the girl creates a new self in the mirror.

While he describes his day, which is rather boring and common, she looks down at him with a wicked smile. Cutting to a wide shot, the girl is seen holding a talking lollipop - the head of the boy.

After flirtation, anger and frustration, she gets desperate. The boy starts running and she takes the form of a centaur, nervously chasing him.

As time goes by, her emotion shakes her and she starts to reflect on the conversation at the dinner table. She simply cannot find anything to say, and mumbles this to herself.

The couple is seen in a small boat, floating in the middle of a lake. She is stuck with him in the boat when he asks her what she has just mumbled. "Nothing," is her response.