Tea Party with TV...

March 29th, 2025
LBTM, Seoul


Join us for a little tea party with a selection of short experimental animation films interweaving nature, wildlife, and love...๐Ÿฉต

Gathered by Seokyoung Yang
Graphic Design by Zozo
Translation support by Jihee Min





DADDY POP-UP STORE

August 1st-18th, 2024
Space Mirage


Daddy Pop-up Store borrows the flashy, disposable format of pop-up shops that have recently flooded Seoulโ€™s trendiest neighborhoods. As long-standing family businesses disappeared post-COVID, major brands stepped in with waste-heavy marketing stuntsโ€”leaving behind little more than branded souvenirs and unseen trash.

To Eugene and Seokyoung, the idea of โ€œfatherโ€ feels closer to a pop-up than a legacy: fleeting, unstable, and mostly performative. Neither grew up under a traditional patriarch, and both confront the fragile masculinity shaped by uneven class and generational divides.

Humor, for them, is a survival strategy. Talking about fathers invites emotional mess with no resolution. Satire becomes the easier routeโ€”not to make light, but to stay afloat.

๋Œ€๋”” ํŒ์—…์Šคํ† ์–ด๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ Š์€ ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ๋“ค์ฉ์ด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒ์—…์Šคํ† ์–ด ์šด์˜์˜ ์ผํšŒ์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ์ฐจ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์—…์„ ์ด์–ด์˜จ ์ „ํ†ต ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋“ค์€ COVID-19 ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์ž์ทจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ถ”์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ”์šฐ๋ ค๋Š” ์œ ๋ช… ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์€ ์ฐฐ๋‚˜์˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด์ˆ˜ํ•œ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฌผ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์˜ ๋์„ ๋งบ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฌผ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€, ์–ด๋””๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ํŒ์—…์Šคํ† ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•œ ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋‹น์‹œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ๊ฐ„์งํ•  ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ’ˆ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ธธ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊น€์œ ์ง„, ์–‘์„์˜ ๋‘ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ž€ ์œ ์„œ ๊นŠ์€ ๋ฐฑํ™”์ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋Œ€๋Œ€๋กœ ์ด์–ด์˜จ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ํŒ์—…์Šคํ† ์–ด์— ๋” ๊ฐ€๊น๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‘ ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ • ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ถ€์žฅ์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์€์œ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋ถ€์žฅ์˜ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ถ€์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ๋ถ€๋ชจ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ , ๊ต์œก์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ์ฐจ์ด์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ , ๋งˆ์ดˆ์  ์กด์žฌ ์ž…์ฆ์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์žฌ์น˜๋Š” ์œ ์ง„๊ณผ ์„์˜์—๊ฒŒ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ƒ์กด ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์ด (์ •์‹ ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์‹ ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ) ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ํ•ดํ•™(์œ ๋จธ)์ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋์ด ์—†๊ณ , ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ์ •๊ณผ ๋ง๋“ค๋งŒ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‘ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณตํ†ต๋œ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ๊ณ ํ†ต์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋”๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ํ† ๋ก ์„ ์ด์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ฒด๋ ฅ์ด ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ๋น„๊ผฌ๊ณ , ์™œ๊ณกํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณผ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ์Šค๊ฝ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค. ์ฑ…์ž„์งˆ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์—†๋Š” ์ฃ„์ฑ…๊ฐ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.



Initiated by Seokyoung Yang, Eugene Mayu Kim
Graphic Design by Yujin Park
Support by Zozo
Review by Taein Lee
Exhibition Photo by Hyunjin Park






5973 Miles Away: Womenโ€™s Exorcisms of Loss

August 6th, 2023
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles


Los Angeles to Seoul is 5973 miles, but the distance of a loved one lost is so much further. When my father was mentally and physically suffering while I was in California and he was across the ocean, I learned that the idea of โ€œgriefโ€ is neither simple nor easily dismissed. The feelings of sadness, anger, and guilt โ€“ in the face of pressure to โ€œmove on,โ€ โ€“ get imprinted in the body and in oneโ€™s interactions with the world.

These women filmmakers have attempted to find corollaries in filmic spaces, ways of exorcizing some elements of the profound grief each has faced. These works invite us to the deep space of the body where emotional understanding is prioritized over intellectual thinking. ย The works that resonate with me the most are those that investigate a continuous process of grieving, not destined to have any type of resolution.

The program centers around British experimental filmmaker Sarah Pucill's work, Stages of Mourning, which exhibits her attempts to physically reenact and represent her partner who passed away from anorexia. Onyou Oh's Pyrotechnics elongates a discourse on cinema and loss of theater experience during the global pandemic by utilizing different forms of cameras with celluloid film. Celeste Olliveirโ€™s FATHER utilizes reenactment to exorcize the embodied pain coming from an intense father-daughter relationship. Jeong Yoon Ahnโ€™s I have never met you uses extreme close-up shots on photographs taken by her late sister, emphasizing the tactility of emotional pixelation and visual noise, from a sister which Ahn can no longer reach. Xiao Zhangโ€™s Tongue Film showcases loss of liquid from the female body. Water, directly associated with aliveness, the work brings ghostly souls on screen. The selected films' haptic realism imprints gestural memories and fades out the tormented marks on women's bodies. The film program will be accompanied by a poetry reading at its conclusion. abbi page will present a short reading of their several works, which center on black femme suffering and tie back to what each film is discussing.

๋ณธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์€ ์˜๊ตญ ์‹คํ—˜์˜ํ™” ๊ฐ๋… Sarah Pucill์˜ Stages of Mourning์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ์‹์ฆ์œผ๋กœ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์œก์ฒด๋กœ ์žฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜ํ™”์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต์›ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. Onyou Oh์˜ Pyrotechnics๋Š” ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‹ค๋œ ๊ทน์žฅ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ ํฌ๋งท๊ณผ ์…€๋ฃฐ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ํ•„๋ฆ„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด๊ฐ„๋‹ค. Celeste Olliveir์˜ FATHER๋Š” ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋…€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ์ •์„œ์  ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ์žฌ์—ฐ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ˜•์‹์œผ๋กœ ์น˜ํ™˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์ •์œค์˜ I have never met you๋Š” ์ฃฝ์€ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ๊ธด ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—…์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ์†๋์— ๋‹ฟ์„ ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋พฐ์กฑํ•œ ํ”ฝ์…€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ์žก์Œ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ„๋‹ค. Xiao Zhang์˜ Tongue Film์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ชธ์—์„œ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๊ฐ„ ์•ก์ฒด์˜ ๋ถ€์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. โ€˜๋ฌผโ€™์ด ์ƒ๋ช…๊ณผ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กด์žฌ์ธ ๋งŒํผ, ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์˜์ƒ ์†์—๋Š” ์œ ๋ น ๊ฐ™์€ ์ƒ๋ช…๋“ค์ด ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ƒ์˜์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ชธ์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋˜์‚ด๋ ค๋‚ด๋Š” ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์—๋Š” ํ‘์ธ ํ€ด์–ด ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ๋‹ค๋ค„์˜จ abbi page์˜ ์‹œ ๋‚ญ๋…์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

View a full program on Los Angeles Filmforumโ†—


Curated by Seokyoung Yang
Poster Design by Jaemin Lee





The Margins of Dream Language

April 23rd, 2023
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles




When image and language are paired together, written and spoken words can reposition the imageโ€™s hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a new point of view. In this program, Korean female filmmakers use text itself as a materialโ€”either directly burned into the film or inserted as voice overโ€”to push cinema towards a radical location or realm, engaging with an expansive legacy of colonial power dynamics. With the understanding that translated language with subtitles always creates a gap, this series welcomes and engages with it as an act of defiance, insisting on opacity and being unexplainable.

The selected films are in subtle unity as they repurpose the dominant language and reclaim it to propel the discourse on diasporic identity. Yet each filmmaker also asks audiences to recognize her unique directionality and experiences consciously. These films have either directly or loosely emerged from themes of Korean female identity, but they also propose divergent responses to militarism, homogeneity, patriarchy, immigration issues, etc. Eventually, they invite audiences to build bridges between poetic dream, politics, and the decolonial gaze.

์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์™€ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ง์„ ์ด๋ฃฐ ๋•Œ ์–ธ์–ด๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ณ„์ธต์  ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ํŠน๋ณ„์ƒ์˜์—์„œ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๊ฐ๋…๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์™€ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜ํ™” ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์œ„์น˜๋‚˜ ์˜์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ€์–ด ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹๋ฏผ์ง€์  ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์—ญํ•™์— ๊ด€์—ฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฒˆ์—ญ๋œ ์–ธ์–ด๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ„๊ทน์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ์†์€ ๋ถˆํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ์„ค๋ช… ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€์˜ ์˜์—ญ์„ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์„ ์ •๋œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋“ค์€ ์ง€๋ฐฐ์  ์–ธ์–ด์˜ ์šฉ๋„๋ฅผ ์žฌ์ „์œ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋””์•„์Šคํฌ๋ผ์  ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ด๋ก ์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ๊ต์ฐจ์ ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚œ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์˜ํ™”๋Š” ๊ด€๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ž์˜ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„์  ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ธธ ์ข…์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ˜„๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ๋А์Šจํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ด ์ƒ์˜์ž‘๋“ค์€, ๊ตฐ๊ตญ์ฃผ์˜, ๋™์งˆ์„ฑ, ๊ฐ€๋ถ€์žฅ์ œ, ์ด๋ฏผ ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ๋ฆ„ ์†์—์„œ ๊ด€๊ฐ์€ ์‹œ์ , ์ •์น˜์  ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒˆ์‹๋ฏผ์ฃผ์˜์  ์‹œ์„  ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.


Co-presented with LA Filmforum, GYOPO, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)


Curated by Seokyoung Yang
Poster Design by Yujin Park


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