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.
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AWARDS
Winner Grand Prize (Seoul International Women’s Film Festival 2021, Asian Shorts Competition)
Jury Statement ENG / KOR
Winner National Award (Leiden Shorts 2021, National Competition
Jury Statement ENG
Winner Best Film About Covid-19 Pandemic (The Hague Film Festival 2021, Pandemic Chronicles Competition)
Nominee Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds Award (Nederlands Film Festival 2020, Student Competition)
Nominee Royal Academy Master Department Award 2020
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)
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)
A FILM BY
Cyan Bae
WRITTEN, FILMED, AND EDITED BY
Cyan Bae
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY
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