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Screening

Apr 23, 2023

THE MARGINS OF DREAM LANGUAGE: EXPERIMENTAL KOREAN FEMALE FILMMAKERS

Co-presented with Filmforum and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and curated by Seokyoung Yang

LOCATION

2220 Arts + Archives

DATE

April 23, 2023

“The Margins of Dream Language: Experimental Korean Female Filmmakers” included experimental short films by Eugene Mayu Kim, Heehyun Choi, Woojin Kim, Onyou Oh, and Boyoon Choi, all Korean female filmmakers who use text itself as a material—either directly burned into the film or inserted as voice over—to push cinema towards a radical location or realm, engaging with an expansive legacy of colonial power dynamics. The screening was followed by a conversation between filmmaker and curator Seokyoung Yang and Jae Min Lee, who wrote an essay published on the occasion of the program. In the conversation, Seokyoung and Jae Min explored the pairing of image and language, and how written and spoken words can reposition the image’s hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a new point of view.