She received her MasterвЂ™s Degree in Cinema Studies at New York University and attended the Whitney MuseumвЂ™s Independent Study Program in Critical and Curatorial Studies as a Helena Rubinstein Fellow. Lee studied English Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, where she was awarded the Norman Jewison Fellowship for further studies in film. She emigrated from Korea, where she was born, at age four with her family to Canada.

Helen Lee is an independent filmmaker based in Toronto and Seoul. Brimming with surreal, breathtaking, elegiac imagery, this sensuously rendered tale of loss, love and longing resonates long after its shocking conclusion. Originally shot on digital video, the film captures the grit and garishness of an alien urban landscape while plumbing the melancholy dream space where the character retreats even as she searches for her very life. Though her path to self-destruction and ultimate self-revelation ironically and tragically mirrors that of her imagined biological mother, the past remains elusive to her, the secret intact. army camp town and the bustling flower markets of Seoul.

SUBROSA tracks the unnamed heroine from a sterile adoption agency office to seedy bars and motel rooms on neon strips, then to a stark U.S.

This exquisitely crafted drama probes the idealized, often false constructions of cultural and maternal identities wrought by the adoptee's return. SUBROSA traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known.

Movie sub rosa 2014