Searching for Dead Dogs

My grandmother’s home has a mystery. Whenever my grandmother takes care of a dog, it dies. This project explores essayistic personal documentary film as an artful and moving humanly rich form, following the track of grandmother’s life story.

Choi Min-Hwa

The painting materializes the lyrics of a hymn in the scriptures of Cheondogyo, a religion based on the Donghak movement. The work references research on Oh Yoon’s woodcut prints, which was one of the studies to explore traditional formalism, one of the main interests of Minjung art in the 1980s.

Ghost of Asia

A video installation in collaboration with Christelle LHEUREUX. A ghost is wandering along the rocky coastline of a Thai island. The children see the ghost when they play at the coast.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

The screening triggered an identification-process of the fugitives with the protagonist of Kurosawa’s movie, as they recognized their similar desperate situation. It was followed by an experimental setup of cinematic improvisations with refugees and actors, focusing on the exploration of fears and uncertainties surrounding the nuclear catastrophe and ongoing threat of radiation.

siren eun young jung

Le Nouveau Monde Amoureux depends on the unique aesthetics of tradition and performativity in pansori, a genre of traditional music in Korea. The work as a performance appropriates the content and form of Chunhyang-ga, the most well-known piece of pansori among the five songs left today. However, it reveals that the development of the typical romantic narrative is embedded with a constant struggle against the class consciousness of the period.

Trailer Project
Trailer Project

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES: MAKING SENSE WHEN THERE'S YOU, NONSENSE, AND LONELINESS / IS DOKDO OUR LAND?