A little tea party with a selection of short experimental animation films interweaving nature, wildlife, and love...๐ฉต
Gathered by Seokyoung Yang
Graphic Design by Zozo
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 Seoulโs trendiest neighborhoods. As long-standing family businesses disappeared post-COVID, major brands stepped in with waste-heavy marketing stuntsโleaving behind little more than branded souvenirs and unseen trash.
To Eugene and Seokyoung, the idea of โfatherโ 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 routeโnot to make light, but to stay afloat.
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: Womenโs 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 โgriefโ is neither simple nor easily dismissed. The feelings of sadness, anger, and guilt โ in the face of pressure to โmove on,โ โ get imprinted in the body and in oneโs 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 Olliveirโs FATHER utilizes reenactment to exorcize the embodied pain coming from an intense father-daughter relationship. Jeong Yoon Ahnโs 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 Zhangโs 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.
์ด๋ฒ ์์์ ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๋ชธ์ ์๊ฒจ์ง ๊ธฐ์ต๊ณผ ์์ฒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๋ ค๋ด๋ ์์ ๋ค์ ์ง์คํ๋ค. ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋ง์ง๋ง์๋ ํ์ธ ํด์ด ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๊ณ ํต์ ๋ค๋ค์จ abbi page์ ์ ๋ญ๋ ์ด ํจ๊ปํ๋ค. 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 imageโs hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a new point of view. In this program, Korean female filmmakers use text itself as a materialโeither directly burned into the film or inserted as voice overโto 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.