Based on a true story,
Bloodless is a virtual reality short film about the murder of a sex worker in 1992 committed by a US soldier stationed in Korea. Shot on the actual location, the film opens to a decrepit residential neighborhood in Dong- ducheon near a US military base. Amidst the flashing neon lights, clubs, and bars, a woman takes fragile steps along the streets. She leads the audience into darker and narrower alleyways. Moments later, the audience is now in a shabby motel room. Scattered clothes and traces of violence are all around. The audience realizes that this room belongs to the woman. Over the course of the next three minutes, the audience experiences the space in which the murder took place.
Bloodless transforms the controversial issue of crimes by US military personnel into a personal and emotional experience while introducing textual history to the sensory realm of virtual reality.
[Gina KIM, Excerpts from director¡¯s treatment (
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