“Time to be myself.” This is a sense shared by the members of a queer dance team named QcanD. Dealing with their dancing, daily lives, and memories, MOVE@8PM allows us to imagine a future full of possibilities. Ian is a security check supervisor who started dancing to gain popularity. Dol is a graduate student who feels liberated when dancing. And Kim Youth, a human rights activist for the disabled, specializes in b-boying. They go back and forth between the everyday life where they must hide their identities and the stage that allows them to be who they are. The director, a queer freelance TV show producer, also says that she goes between the two worlds. She has a very realistic concern that if her identity is revealed, she might lose her job. Although they struggle against their own anxieties, they become each other’s pride, courage, and support when they are together as QcanD. When this was undermined during the pandemic, the anxiety and fear was completely different.
The film interweaves actual worries and specific stories of the members and contains the process of getting to know oneself through dance by slowly narrowing the distance between the individual and the world beyond. Their honest confessions were possible because of the atmosphere of the gentle and intimate interviews. [Programmer KIM Hyunmin]