Hee Won Lee
Phone tapping - Film - 2009
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 11
Film
The film is built up from that single, imperceptible instant that signals the shift from day to night, a fleeting moment in which what was, is no more, where things might acquire fresh significance. Voices guide us through the city, while the camera seems to be searching for a specific plot of land, for the coincidence between narrative and image. the topography of the site continues to advance, while in parallel there emerges a second topography -- mental this time, -- until, perhaps, they meet, somewhere here, in a new psychical space. Using the city of Seoul, personal stories that are being told. Our role is to follow it and select a locus of interpretation: truth, (urban) folktale..
