외주 / Outsourcing by Jun Seok Yoon | South Korea | 2026  

Duration: 00:08:50

A struggling film set slowly collapses into absurdity as an AI assistant begins replacing human decisions, emotions, and eventually the meaning of the work itself.

Director, Writer, Editor : Jun Seok Yoon
DOP : Jeon Woo Sin
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR : Jin Young An
SOUND : Sung Won Ji
MUSIC : Miguel Johnson
CAST :  So Jin Park (as AI), Jun Woo Cheon (as 1), Jun Seok Yoon (as 2)
Based on The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco

CONTACTS / LINKS : @steadyteller

In a small and crumbling film production, a director and actors attempt to complete a scene while constantly interrupted by an AI system that insists on optimizing the process.

What begins as technical assistance gradually turns into control over rhythm, emotion, framing, and even human relationships.

Shot primarily in a single long take and presented in black and white, Outsourcing explores the uneasy coexistence between efficiency and humanity, where creative labor is slowly outsourced to invisible systems.

As the boundaries between filmmaking, performance, and automation collapse, the production itself becomes a reflection on contemporary dependence on artificial intelligence.

Director’s statement
I wanted to create a film that feels both absurd and strangely familiar.

While AI technologies are rapidly becoming part of everyday creative work, I became interested not only in their usefulness, but also in the subtle emotional changes they produce in human relationships and artistic processes.

Rather than treating AI as a villain, Outsourcing observes how people willingly surrender decisions, timing, language, and eventually responsibility itself.

The film was made with minimal resources, using long takes, fixed compositions, and black-and-white imagery to emphasize repetition, instability, and the artificial rhythm of automated systems.

I was also interested in blurring the line between fiction and production itself — allowing mistakes, interruptions, and mechanical behaviors to become part of the film’s structure.

In the end, Outsourcing is less about technology itself than about the quiet erosion of human presence within systems designed for convenience.

Bio
Born in 1987, Jun Seok Yoon lives in Dangjin, a small city in South Korea, where he teaches students how to write and organize their thoughts. He is the father of one son and one daughter.

Since 2016, he has been making low-budget independent films as a hobby, usually producing one film per year with budgets under 500 USD. His works often explore long takes, black-and-white imagery, minimal spaces, and the fragile relationship between structure and human behavior.

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