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NIGHT OF SEOUL ⏤ TIME IS PASSING BY SO FAST. EVERYONE IS PRESSING ON, SCARED TO BE LEFT BEHIND. “NIGHT OF SEOUL” VISITS THIS SENTIMENT IN A FORM OF A FILM-POEM.
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MIDDAY OF VENICE ⏤ WHAT DO YOU SEE ON YOUR BEDROOM CEILING WHEN YOU ARE LYING ON YOUR BED, LATE AT NIGHT? THESE ARE THE MEMORIES THAT KEEP ME COMPANY BEFORE I FALL ASLEEP.
STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, "NIGHT OF SEOUL"
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STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, “NIGHT OF SEOUL”
STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, "NIGHT OF SEOUL"
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STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, “NIGHT OF SEOUL”
THE CAMERA’S APERTURE RANGE CHANGING BACK AND FORTH IN A LOOP HOLDS THE CONCEPT OF TIME.
MOTION GRAPHIC FOR "NIGHT OF SEOUL"
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MOTION GRAPHIC FOR “NIGHT OF SEOUL”
MOTION GRAPHIC FOR "MIDDAY OF VENICE"
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MOTION GRAPHIC FOR “MIDDAY OF VENICE”
STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, "MIDDAY IN VENICE"
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STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, “MIDDAY IN VENICE”
STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, "MIDDAY IN VENICE"
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STILL FROM THE FILM-POEM, “MIDDAY IN VENICE”
IMAGES ARE CUT AND OVERLAID EACH OTHER LIKE A SCRAPBOOK.

NIGHT OF SEOUL / MIDDAY OF VENICE

AUG 2018
FILM GRAPHIC DESIGN SOUND

This is a Film Poem, that visualises certain emotions through video footage and combines them with subtitles and music.

It has two episodes, Night of Seoul and Midday of Venice. The first episode Night of Seoul①, is based on my personal relationship with time. The song combined with this episode is “Moon Song“. The second episode, Midday of Venice②, is written about memories that keep me company until I fall asleep, and was combined with the song “Greatly Appreciated“.

I tend to travel with my camera and film that location. When I visited Bug-Agjeong(북악정) in Seoul, I wanted to capture my inner thoughts while I was in that location. Bug-Agjeong is an old Korean architecture located on the mountain looking down to the city. Compared to the busy streets and bright building lights, the tranquillity of the traditional architecture seemed to have stopped time, somehow.

Time seems meaningless when you see such a place.③ However, you can still see the traffic and people rushing around just below. The subtitle translates this sentiment into words while the song adds to the ambience.④ By the end of the project, the motion graphic I designed for “Night of Seoul” made me think of the sequel of this.⑤⑥

When I was travelling across Venice while I was an exchange student in Italy, I filmed the waterways of the city. And those images always remind me of Venice to this day. So the film footage from Venice started the theme of connecting to old memories.⑦

The image of the water shining in the sunlight was what I would think of when I looked back at that time. Like a scrapbook, I edited the video footage on top of each other.⑧ The poem, in subtitle form, captures how your head rummages through memories when one lies on the bed, waiting to fall asleep. This particular memory brings me back to a sunny day I spent in Venice.