cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연

Dear Chaemin | 채민이에게

SHORT DOCUMENTARY
THREE-CHANNEL INSTALLATION
2020 | 17:15 | COLOR | STEREO | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of video letters are sent to the director’s sister in Seoul. Should we want to return to the ‘old normal’?

The autofictional film juxtaposes the Korean and Dutch contexts of contact tracing, biopolitics, and crowd control practices, each of which intensifies the stigmatization and violence against queer communities and people of Asian descent.

NOW STREAMING AS VOD AT

Purplay 퍼플레이

Dear Chaemin installed with three vertical screens

A FILM BY

Cyan Bae

WRITTEN, FILMED, AND EDITED BY

Cyan Bae

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY

waterparken

FEATURED IN

De Filmkrant

AWARDS

Grand Prize (Seoul International Women’s Film Festival 2021, Asian Shorts Competition)
Jury Statement ENG / KOR

National Award (Leiden Shorts 2021, National Competition
Jury Statement ENG

Best Film About Covid-19 Pandemic (The Hague Film Festival 2021, Pandemic Chronicles Competition)

SCREENINGS

London Korean Film Festival (2022, UK)

Boston Asian American Film Festival (2021, US)

Women’s Film Festival in Gwangju (2021, KR)

Jeju Women’s Film Festival (2021, KR)

Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (2021, KR) [Closing Film]

Leiden Shorts (2021, NL)

The Hague Film Festival (2021, NL)

Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival (2021, US)

Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival (2021, UK)

Zeitgeist Film Restival (2021, US)

Nederlands Film Festival (2020, NL)

EXHIBITIONS

Practicing Sovereignty (2022, DE)

KABK Graduation Show (2020, NL)

cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연
cyan bae | pingping press | 배채연