Sweet Secrets

What we know, but no one has said

Where do secrets live? Somewhere on the border between knowing and not knowing — yet a secret isn’t made simply by who knows and who doesn’t; it depends on the relationships between them.

Many secrets depend on exclusivity. A secret must not be carelessly revealed; keeping it binds those who keep it, or sets them apart from those who don’t — or keeps an imperfect relationship going. Either way, a secret’s nature is to remain hidden.

What would a sweet secret be? For a secret to be called sweet, it should be sweet to everyone — even to those who don’t know it. A contradiction? Too romantic? Imagine, then, the opposite kind of secret: one meant to be shared, told and spread, one that shows its true worth only when more people know it and embrace it.

Perhaps we keep too many things secret that need not be — to lighten the burden of reality, to avoid complicated relationships, to look away from our true selves — building hidden rooms in our hearts and forgetting they exist.

In Sweet Secrets, three emerging directors of Arirang offer three perspectives on the secrets within us: stories no one asked us to hide, yet which we buried ourselves, or tried to ignore. Somewhere in that pile of forgotten stories lies a sweet secret that may awaken us anew.