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“Less is More, Less is Now!” ‘Are you living an intentional life?’  Today, we are going to talk about <The Minimalists: Less is Now(2021)>, a Netflix documentary about giving you a perspective on how having more stuff doesn’t give you more satisfaction and finding the true sense of freedom away from a clutter of stuff. Mediaus | <The Minimalists: Less is Now (2021)> “Less is More” is a phrase that is commonly used to represent minimalism, which means simplicity is rather fulfilling and natural than excessiveness. This phrase can be applied to various fields such as aesthetics, architecture, and fashion. In the documentary, Joshua Milburn, the “Minimalists,” portrays his philosophy on “possessions” through his own biography. Recounting his childhood, he grew up in poverty with a mother who has suffered from substance abuse but with enormous efforts, he was able to become the youngest director at a major corporation with suburban houses, luxury cars, and designer stuff. H...

We are living at a time where eco-friendliness is not a choice but has become a must. Now, the question is how to inspire people to be concerned in the environment, change their perceptions and take action. There was an event held to discuss the environmental crisis in films of various genres; the Seoul International Eco Film Festival (SIEFF). SIEFF is an annual event held in honor of World Environment Day. This year marks its 19th anniversary which was hosted by the Korea Green Foundation and sponsored by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Korea Ministry of Environment, EBS and more. This event took place both online and offline through Megabox, Seongsu, and digital theaters from June 2 to Jun 8, 2022. (The 19th Seoul International Eco Film Festival official poster | image: SIEFF Official Website) SIEFF , calls for action beyond appreciation ‘Ecoverse’ is the slogan of this year. The word Ecoverse is a portmanteau word of eco and universe meaning “to build a future-oriented eco-worldview ...

Do you remember the 18th Seoul Eco Film Festival at the beginning of last month? Today, we would like to introduce one of the 64 films that were on-screen during the festival, a documentary movie titled ‘Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low-cost Fashion’. The theme itself was interesting enough, but we got more excited about the fact that the movie was directed by Gilles Bovon who has made several award-winning documentary films and Edouard Perrin who has worked as a reporter and a journalist for 25 years. Fast fashion is in the same vein as fast food, referring to clothing that is quickly manufactured and distributed reflecting the latest fashion trend. This includes SPA(Specialty store retailer of Private label Apparel) brands that directly manage the whole process from design to sales such as H&M, ZARA, UNIQLO, SPAO. After the World War 2, the industry has become more innovative by spurring on the renovation on manufacturing and supplying process as well as material development...

The largest international environmental film festival in Asia, Seoul International Eco Film Festival – hereinafter SEFF, has introduced outstanding global environmental films. Since its launch in 2004, the festival has been served as a place where people look for the ways for coexistence of the environment and human beings and discuss potential solutions and the acts required for the future. Let’s take an example of the film <Plastic China> that won the Green Competition Best Feature Film at the 15th SEFF in 2017. This film was known to trigger China’s ban on recyclable waste imports and even to affect the <Act on the Promotion of saving and recycling of resources> in Korea in 2018. This movie is about the environment polluted by our reckless consumption and dispose of single-use plastic packaging and how it is closely connected with people’s lives. It criticizes human being’s indiscreet consumption on resource in the name of convenience and how seriously the pollution ha...