Chae Yu

A director blames the failed shoot on personal feelings toward their actor. The actor auditions for a role in a shamanic tale about a goblin that's entered a woman’s body. The story is told twice, solely from one person’s point of view, but differently.

Sea pineapples degenerate their brains once they find a place to settle. Yeon-gyo walks through the canyons of the American Southwest under the blazing sun, relying only on the shadowy outline of the person in front of her. As that figure becomes clearer, she is suddenly transported to a hospital corridor in Seoul where she was tiptoeing for her mom’s life and death and the backstage of a theater in Seoul where her ex-lover Ji-yeon once performed. Torn between forgetting and remembering, Yeon-gyo encounters a familiar nurse from the hospital working at a remote canyon motel. Like the relentless sun in the canyon, Yeon-gyo wishes the moments in Seoul would stretch into an endless summer, free from the constant waiting. In search of the meaning behind Ji-yeon’s words about finding dinosaur footprints, Yeon-gyo walks through the canyon of loss and discovery, struggling with grief.

In between cities, I think of home. But I wonder if there’s even such a thing. One day, two ladybugs stopped on my index finger. I let them stay for a while.

The fact that there is an enhancement of contours has long been known; in fact it is a remarkable thing that has been commented on by psychologists many times. In order to draw an object, we have only to draw its outline. How used we are to looking at pictures that have only the outline! What is the outline? The outline is only the edge difference between light and dark or one color and another. It is not something definite. It is not, believe it or not, that every object has a line around it! There is no such line. It is only in our own psychological makeup that there is a line; we are beginning to understand the reasons why the “line” is enough of a clue to get the whole thing. Presumably our own eye works in some similar manner—much more complicated, but similar. (Feynman 1964, The Feynman Lectures on Physics)

Does sound I make here in Seoul reach Paris?

The residue of an ocean that once covered this place seeps upward through the sediment beneath the city and the badlands. The past and the present press against each other. A woman records the distance between herself and you, knowing the gap will not close.

Zoea: A larval form of crabs, next stage from the egg. Young woman arrives at a fish farm through a broker. News reports about a mysterious boat found near the coastal area of Taean, South Chungcheong. Yun-soo and Yeon-gyo’s mundane routine continues as they clean the water tanks.

Tales of the lovesick serpent “Sangsabaem” is a Korean folklore about a protagonist who dies from the pain of unrequited love and turns into a snake to express their suppressed emotions to the object of affection.

An amateur drummer finds an abandoned drum set on a lonley island in Southern Thailand.

Projection performance by Chae Yu

You moved as if shimmering and rippling water and I danced above like a seagull. The film explores visual reminders of objects and surroundings of memory to the void and absence tied to it, offering a path for the mechanism of memory. The imagery is contradicted by found sounds that operate as triggers of the past or as debris in the present. The film notes a new category of space-time.