Black Hole Film Festival
A film festival for anyone caught between conflicting values, identity, social expectations, and desire — searching for a way forward.
Defined “black hole” in scientific language · 1967
In the 1960s, black holes were first defined — cosmic forces of extreme gravity, bending everything around them.
Anything that comes too close is inevitably pulled in.
And in 2026, we begin to realize something similar — that we, too, are living within an invisible field of gravity.
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Program
Find a way out.
This film visualizes inner chaos. A world where too many voices, choices, and expectations pull at you at the same time.
This film shows a character coming to accept his reality and embrace the chaos of his life.
This film shows how the protagonist breaks away from a life that doesn’t fit him and lets go of his old patterns.
This film shows how you begin to find yourself.
This film shows how you find your peace and stay true to what you believe in.
Ready to begin the journey?
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Stage / Chaos
This film visualizes inner chaos. A world where too many voices, choices, and expectations pull at you at the same time.
In an ordinary Asian American neighborhood, Evelyn runs a struggling laundromat with her timid husband Waymond. Her father needs constant care. Her daughter Joy is rebellious and distant. Her life is nothing but routine, compromise, and exhaustion.
Then one day, Waymond starts acting strange. He tells her he is from another universe. He says she must connect with all the different versions of herself across the multiverse—a kung fu star, an opera diva, a sushi chef—to stop an evil force that is about to destroy everything.
Stage / Acceptance
This film shows a character coming to accept his reality and embrace the chaos of his life.
Dallas Buyers Club follows Ron Woodroof, an electrician and rodeo cowboy in 1980s Texas. He lives recklessly without restraint until doctors give him just thirty days to live.
After he is diagnosed with HIV, he denies it, lashes out in anger, and falls into despair—even punching through a wall. In the end, he accepts his situation and fights to save himself.
Stage / Release
This film shows how the protagonist breaks away from a life that does not fit him and lets go of his old patterns.
The Apartment follows C.C. Baxter, an ordinary office worker who lends his apartment to his bosses in exchange for career advancement. As he gets pulled deeper into this arrangement, he begins to question the life he has built.
When his feelings for an elevator operator complicate everything, he is forced to choose between continuing the pattern or breaking away from it.
Stage / Find your own path
This film shows how you begin to find yourself.
Soul follows Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. Just as he finally gets his big break, an unexpected accident separates his soul from his body.
Trapped in a strange realm where souls are formed, he begins to question what makes life truly meaningful. To return, he must face a deeper question: is it purpose, or something else, that gives life its value?
Stage / Peace
This film shows how you find your peace and stay true to what you believe in.
The Straight Story follows Alvin Straight, an old man who travels across the country on a lawn mower to see his estranged brother. Along the slow journey, he begins to find peace as he reflects on the life he has lived and the distance he has created.
About
In 2026, within contemporary society, young people are confronted with many conflicting values, like being drawn into a black hole.
The programme is structured as a journey: Chaos → Acceptance → Release → Find Your Path → Peace. Each film reflects a different state within this progression.
The exhibition does not offer answers. Instead, it invites you to recognize your own confusion — and to accept it as part of where you are. Moving forward often requires letting go. Like the Penrose process — where something must be given up at the edge of a black hole in order to escape with energy — we, too, must release what no longer fits: old habits, external expectations, and paths that are not truly ours. Only then can something new begin to take shape. What remains is a quieter state — one where you move forward with clarity, balance, and a stronger sense of self.