2K Flat, Color, Sound, 10’3”, 2023
“Exploring both the abstractions of astrophotography and the documentary possibilities of classical Korean landscape painting, The Far and Near is a cosmic voyage into seemingly empty space, in which Kim collages and distorts inkjet prints of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope into chimeric spacescapes that evoke the oneiric spaces of Ahn Gyeon’s “Dream Journey to Peach Blossom Land,” a painting commissioned to document the dreams of 15th-century ruler Prince Anpyeong.” - NYFF -
1995년 한 천문학자가 엉뚱한 프로젝트를 제시했다. 아무것도 없다고 생각하던 우주의 작은 한 부분을 허블 망원경을 이용해 촬영해보자는 것이었다. 정묘년(1447년) 안평대군은 구름과 안개가 자욱히 서려있는 복숭아 나무 숲을 거니는 꿈을 꾸고 화가 안견에게 그것을 그림으로 그리도록 했다. 두 일화를 바탕으로 한 이 영화는 나사(NASA) 영상 이미지 라이브러리의 사진들을 인쇄, 변형, 왜곡하여 ‘멀고 가까운 곳’이 이미지가 되는 과정을 탐구한다.
In 1995, an astronomer proposed a peculiar project. It was to use the Hubble Telescope to capture a small part of the universe that was then known to be a void. In 1447 in Chosun Dynasty, Prince Anpyeong had a dream of walking through a peach blossom forest shrouded in clouds and mist, and he asked the painter, Ahn Gyeon, to capture it in a painting. Through the juxtaposition of the two historical anecdotes, the film examines the images of ‘the far and near’ through printing, transforming, and distorting the photos from the NASA Image and Video Library.
Selected Screenings
2023 EXiS(Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul), Seoul, South Korea
제20회 서울국제실험영화페스티벌
2023 The 61th New York Film Festival Currents, New York, USA
뉴욕영화제
2023 WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2023 Light Matters Film Festival, Alfred, New York, USA
2023 Linea d'Ombra Festival, Documentary Competition, Salerno, Italy
