The Hell - Two Kind Of Life
Yeon Sang-ho│2006│ 34m 56s│Color
The - Hell Kind Life Of Two is a two-part series about a man and a woman facing opposite afterlife sentences.
Part 1. An ordinary office worker is prophesied by an angel to die and go to hell. Terrified of eternal torment, he flees his impending doom, only to confront a mysterious landscape he once saw on a cheap calendar.
Part 2. Jaeyoung, an art instructor, learns she will die in five days and enter heaven. She calmly prepares for death, but her boyfriend's desperate plea to run away makes her waver between accepting her fate and her lingering attachments to life.
Contrasting desperate humans with apathetic divine beings, the film explores how the fear of the afterlife shapes our present existence and choices. Created via rotoscoping based on director Yeon Sang-ho's own acting, this early work lays the foundation for his dark universe that would eventually expand into Hellbound.

Love is Protein
Yeon Sang-ho│2008│ 23m 34s│Color
Late at night, three broke and starving young men break open a piggy bank to order fried chicken. Just before they eat, a pig-headed jokbal owner and a chicken-headed restaurant owner suddenly appear at their door. This bizarre gathering of human and non-human figures concisely captures the eat-or-be-eaten ecology we often casually overlook.
Serving as a pilot for 『Wetland Ecology Report』 and based on Choi Kyu-sok's comic, the film uses black comedy to depict modern South Korea's class society. Director Yeon Sang-ho highlights the harsh reality that, regardless of our feelings about consuming others, this predatory cycle inevitably continues.