The Seed, a short film produced and directed by Linkin Park DJ Joseph Hahn ( Mr. Hahn ) and presented by Shorts International.Musically, The Seed features two untitled original compositions by Hahn as well as a track (“There They Go”) from Fort Minor, the side project fronted by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda. Discussing the film’s impetus, Hahn says, “I saw a homeless guy having an argument with someone who clearly wasn’t there. I wondered what it would look like to see the fight through his eyes. What if what he was seeing was real? Who does he think is out to get him?”
The Seed tells the story of Sung, portrayed by Will Yun Lee (Torque, Elektra, Die Another Day, “CSI,” “Bionic Woman”), a homeless veteran losing his mind on the banks of the L.A. River. Pursued by unseen forces, fighting unseen foes, Sung is ostensibly “just another lunatic.” But as his invisible war continues under bridges and in tunnels, the viewer is taken deeper into his nightmare—into a nightmare of conspiracy, cloaking and the government’s unseen war. Sung struggles to fight through what is visible to him, yet invisible to the world around him.
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