This film unfolds as an investigation that moves back and forth from the large image to the pixel, from surface to fragment, from wholeness to detail. As time passes, the traces of a person become increasingly fractured, while materials accumulate unevenly between absence and excess. To re-expose the narrative of a figure once represented and arranged according to a clear logic, A Real Christmas overlays fragments with imagination and turns its gaze toward the spaces the archive has deliberately left blank. (JEONG Yeoreum)