Space Cell

"Emotional memories that had formed the ambiguous boundaries between reality and fantasy began to divide exactly in two, and at the same time there was no emotion left on either side of reality and fantasy." Chang Gyeong is the name of a palace in central Seoul - a palace that was turned into a zoo by the occupying Japanese.

Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an almost post-apocalyptic post-industrial landscape. Shot on grungy Super-8. The first hour focuses on the everyday activities of the man and woman. They consume cheap food, watch TV and nasty porno, they receive customers and combat each other with psychological power games. Despite emotional numbness, the woman tries to escape. She makes friends with another woman, but then decides that returning to the man is the easiest option. The return of the other woman heralds the very shocking finale. Not for the squeamish.

Images out of their intended context create new context, and also provide us the perception to be able to see which were there but not seen in its own context. This work is a process of research on the world which is familiar, but at the same time full of mysteries. This film is based on the abandoned images with variable reasons. I hoped the images would be free from the logic of selection. At the same time, I was curious about the world which is full of mysteries, always richer than the personal perception. (Lee Jangwook)

A trace of private observation and recording of another person's memory. This work is based on the video recordings of Lee Woo-jung's mobile phone. It is expected that the traces created by the method of repeated superimposition will create different layers of time and emotion. Through this process, the structure of other people's records gradually collapses, and I pay attention to the new structure that emerges from the pile of ruins.

This film is inspired by a moment of one autumn day in my childhood. The moment I experienced was impossible to be measured or represented. I became curious about this ‘Image of Time’. This film is the first step on the journey.

'hibernation ' is conceived from the videotape of the wedding ceremony and the daughter's home video. In the work process, the filmmaker pays attention to the details being recorded, what I remember, and the relationship to lead it in the new detail. Hand printing performs the role of editing and printing simultaneously. As a result, the print created in this process will be a result and new material at the same time. Additive printing procedure is taken as a manner of recording in this film.

Filmed at Hongjecheon in Seoul, Mokgamcheon in Gwangmyeong, and Gulpocheon in Incheon, the film captures the impressions of three streams in three different cities. Each of the three streams intersects and overlaps with images of the filmmaker’s own body.

On a clear afternoon, a small garden at home is surrounded by a silence that seems to last forever. Only the gestures of the cats let me experience the time of this small garden. In the garden, something is being built up, cleared away, destroyed, created. This film is an experience of garden time, which fades as the layer gets thicker.

Changgyeong Palace was converted into a zoo in the Japanese colonoial period and continued to operate as such for some time after liberation.

Sometimes, the void becomes a passage to the invisible. The film is a journey in pursuit of that which saturates the forest yet eludes human perception. Flashes and darkness, punctuated by fleeting hues, conspire to capture presences that linger between the present and the yet-to-come. Surrendering to the film's orchestrated rhythm rewards viewers with unprecedented imagery. (Sung MOON)

Conversation brings and changes the memory. Sometimes, it is a procedure that concludes upon certain memory. In this context, the way of conversation becomes methodology and theme at the same time. The process of conversation keeps repeating, and it is performed the way of conversation by using traces made during the repeating process, such as film, sound, and motion of choreographer. (Lee Jangwook)

A short film by Lee Jangwook

When the rectangular screen freezes, people begin to rise one by one and walk out of the frame. It's the spacetime that occurs between departing bodies and growing plants. Riding on the sound of feedback, you and I collide, and you finally escape from this place.

One who believes in something, a passenger, an entrance and an exit, an express train that constantly arrives and leaves. Rules break like a prayer. Derivative realities that we believe in, bodies that cross paths, the place, the sound, the time that it creates.

A man searches for memories of his family's past, alternating between Geomeunyeo, Buseok Temple, and his grandmother's house, all of which are located along a straight line on the map. Geomeunyeo is a rock located in the reclaimed area of Buseok, Seosan, South Korea. It was originally a reef that was exposed above sea level, but is now above ground. The name of Buseok, which means floating rock, is said to be derived from Geomeunyeo.

2014/variable duration/sound/16mm multi projection performer:Na, Yeonwu opening performance at Namjun Paik Art Center

And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight, And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly, The surface glittered out of heart of light, And they were behind us, reflected in the pool. Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty. — T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (No. I of Four Quartets)

I've tried creating a stop-motion animation of a story that begins with a camera and a toe human being, both physically incompatible, sticking their heads into each other's holes.

This film is made of footages shot on the rooftop of my friend's house at Kathmandu, Nepal. Lazimpat is a name of the street where the house locates. It's a portrait of people, sunshine, flowers, and etc. (Lee Jang-wook)

The result of an experiment around filming, developping and making hand impressions with 16mm of the director's father.