www.pilarmatadupont.com
2013
Single-channel High Definition digital video
full film 5:04min
colour, sound
Edition of 3
The artist, after two years of research into the history and politics between North and South Korea, visiting North Korea and undertaking an Asialink Residency at the Goyang National Art Studio in Seoul, studies two reunification monuments in North and South Korea. Mata Dupont has animated those monuments to play with utopian ideas of reunification, and the significance of 'the embrace' as representation of the reunification in the South Korean national psyche. The two figures from the 'Three Charters for National Reunification' monument near Pyongyang embrace in joy, only to have their bliss dissipate and a new, and unexpectedly uncomfortable, era to emerge. The work references DPRK propaganda, K-pop, texts by Andrei Lankov and Lee Eung-joon, and the romantic notions of unification used by artists, filmmakers, and writers in South Korea during the late 90s and early 21st Century; the 'Sunshine Policy' era of soft-line attitude to the North.
WRITTEN and DIRECTED by Pilar Mata Dupont
CAST
Choi Moon
Lim Sora
PRODUCER
Park Jaeyong
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Lee Seongtaek
SOUND DESIGNER
Ash Gibson Greig
FILM EDITOR
Pilar Mata Dupont
GAFFER
Cha Sangkyun
FIRST LIGHTING ASSISTANT
Yoo Ahjong
SECOND LIGHTING ASSISTANT
Moon Suhjoon
THIRD LIGHTING ASSISTANT
Kim Namyoung
FIRST CAMERA ASSISTANT
Lee Jonghyeok
SECOND CAMERA ASSISTANT
Lee Minjoon
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Pilar Mata Dupont
HAIR & MAKEUP
Choi Jina
HEAD SET BUILDER
Mok Jinho
3D MODELLING
Thomas Drenth
COLOUR GRADING
Lee Seongtaek
CGI EFFECT
Adriel Bong and Lee Seongtaek
OPENING SEQUENCE
Lee Mire and Pilar Mata Dupont
TITLE DESIGN
Lee Seongtaek
Filmed at Goyang National Art Studio, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea.
THANK YOU
Ahn Hyunsook; staff at Goyang National Art Studios and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea; Thomas Drenth (the Architect); Michael McCall; John Ha; Lee Jeongsim; Nick Bonner and Koryo Tours.
This project has been assisted by the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Cutlure and the Arts, and commissioned by the University of Western Australia.
This project was developed during an Asialink exchange residency in South Korea, which is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Korea Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
This Asialink Arts Residency Program is a collaboration between Asialink, Goyang National Art Studio, and Artspace.
11 сен 2024
