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- You are here: Home > POROSITY VALLEY 2: TRICKSTERS’ PLOT
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Saturday, November 28, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Ayoung Kim
Cast:
Yasameen Al-Qaifi, Ahmed Mohammed Askar, Yousef Abdullah Al-Rahmi
Cinematography:
Seokjun Lee
Editing:
Ayoung Kim, Jihyun Min, Yong Jeong
Sound:
Seunghwan Jeon
Music:
CIFIKA
Producer:
Heejung Oh
Production:
Seesaw Pictures
At the end of POROSITY VALLEY, PORTABLE HOLES (2017), Petra has merged with its own clone and been transported into a dimension that transcends time and space. It awakens to find itself dropped on the shoreline of an island known as “Crypto Valley.” The island is home to numerous minerals/data fragments that are now adrift, having lost their homes for different reasons. It is a land of boundaries, neither “here” nor “there” – an island, in other words. Petra once again experiences a migration review, facing authorities who regard migrants as equivalent to aliens or viruses. Failing its review, Petra gets confined to the “Smart Grid” that serves as an alien detention center, but after encountering a visual/auditory hallucination there, it escapes, following a beckoning voice to the island’s center. There, within the caverns, it encounters the Mother Rock, a data center or ancient cloud and transcendent presence that has existed in this place for eons…
Director:
AYOUNG KIM was born in 1979 in Seoul, South Korea, where she currently lives and works. Interested in the notions of crossings, transmissions, transnationals, transpositions, and reversibility, she seeks possible integrations, articulations, and collisions of things in between time, space, structure, and syntax. In doing so, Kim adopts the devices of storytelling, narrativity, and rhetoric to evoke unfamiliar forms of reading, listening, and thinking of the conditions of the world by focusing on unlikely encounters of ideas. The outcomes take the forms of video, voice, sonic fiction, image, diagram, and text, and are exposed as exhibition, performance, theater project, and publication. Recently, Kim has been endeavoring to graft and collide the fictional and the historical together through distorting reality.
Festivals, awards:
Berlinale Forum Expanded 2020 / Korea Artist Prize - Finalist, Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 2019 / Grand Prize - Best Film for Korean SF Film - Chuncheon SF Film Festival, Korea 2020 / Sharjah Film Platform, UAE 2020 / San Diego Asian Film Festival 2020 / Jeonju International Film Festival 2020 / Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Korea 2020 / Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival, Korea 2020 / Diaspora Film Festival, Korea 2020
„AYOUNG KIM’s strengths as an artist lie in her unique approach to her art, which is as dogged as detective work in her exhaustive gathering, reinterpreting, reproducing, and recontextualizing of information. To complete a single work, she willingly takes on an arduous research process lasting several years. Yet her archival research is not intended to reaffirm or reinforce some existing collective memory shared among us. It violates and deconstructs, functioning as material for a trenchant perspective that critically reexamines historical perspectives.” (Eunhee Kim - Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)