Story · The Scene
The four of them
The Khidhir family · Seoul Forest · 2026
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The Khidhirs came from Boston, four of them, first time in Korea. What they wanted to see was the nature inside a city that is not theirs. So we took them to Seoul Forest on an early-summer day and filmed exactly that.
The film starts the way the day did: the four of them walking in, hands linked, past the garden-show gates. A red phone booth, a wall that says YOURSELF, inflatable mascots taller than the kids. The park did the set dressing.
Halfway through, the film slows into portraits, one each: Amal, Besam, Aya, Ali. Then it lets them loose again, stacking stones, racing the paths, piling onto a yellow bench built for giants. The photographs and the film come from the same day.
Shot on the day by our photographer, working right beside the film camera. Real photographs, not frames pulled from the video. Two crafts, one shoot, one team, and you keep both.
The Scene is our shortest film: one location, one stretch of the right light. It is not only for couples. For the Khidhirs it meant one summer day in Seoul Forest, the four of them together, and a film cut to the pace of the kids. The photographs were made the same day, side by side with the film, and both are delivered together.
