비애 悲哀 – Beauty of Sorrow
2026 · 2m
Directed by Dylan Kellogg
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Through the poetic streets of Paris and the reflections of a still fountain, a woman seeks reconciliation with a buried pain; a poem between France and Korea exploring identity, the weight of memory and the fragile beauty of sorrow.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
This is exactly the kind of precious, Instagram-ready meditation on identity that usually makes me want to scream—but Kellogg's refusal to resolve anything, the way Paris and Korea stay permanently estranged in the frame, actually earns its melancholy instead of performing it.
A formally composed essay film that understands its lineage in both structural poetics and transnational cinema; the still fountain as reflexive device, the bilingual title as integral form—this is a short that knows exactly what tradition it's extending.
The entire weight of this film pivots on a single decision: trusting the fountain's stillness to do the emotional work instead of cutting away from it, and suddenly two minutes of visual restraint becomes a masterclass in how absence can hold more than any narrative ever could.