Jeamin Cha

OorR
Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2nd trailer, 2016, HD video, 1minutes 30second, color/sound

The second official trailer of the 2016 Mediacity Seoul Biennale was inspired by Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poem “Two Billion Light Years of Solitude” (1952), from which the biennale’s title “NERIRI KIRURU HARARA” derived. The film, shot in a subway garage, attempts to deliver a nuanced understanding of the repeated usages of the conjunction “or” from the line of the poem, “neririing or kiruruing or hararaing.” The work’s textual sensibilities include a flexible state of mind, a state of quietly looking at something, and a state of imagining something in puzzlement. Reflecting upon Tanikawa’s poem and its curious sensitivities, OorR visualizes an eccentric yet intriguing situation in which people look for something in a subway terminal, where trains are parked after the day’s travels.

A Film by
Jeamin Cha

Cast
Saebyuk Kim, Ohjoon Kwon, Heri Kwon, Sumin Shin, Jinho Shin, Jungwon Lee, Pyungju Lee, Jaehyun Choe,
Sohyui Han

Director of Photography and D.I. Gookhyun Gang
First Assistant Director Seung Namgung
Second Assistant Director Minsoo Thigpen
Camera Jisu Kwon
Camera Assistant Seongil Lee
Title Design E Roon Kang, Minsun Eo
Editor Younglim Lee
Music Minwhee Lee
Sound Design Morceauxx. J.Woo
Location Coordinator Grace Park

Location
Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation

Commissioned by
SeMA BIENNALE MEDIACITY SEOUL 2016

Hosted by
SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART