Heehyun Choi

Historia

Heehyun Choi is a moving image artist in Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea. Choi’s works are grounded on the interest in discussing cinema from a structuralist viewpoint and exploring the materiality and virtuality of image.

Películas

A Thousand Years Ago
Voice
An imaginary look back at the present and distant past from the point of view of the year 2049. The return of an exile to Los Angeles decades after social and environmental collapse. He recreates the memories of his past (our present), and imagines the lives of those who inhabited his old apartment when he was gone. His sense of displacement elicits a meditation on place, memory and dream.
Birdsaver Report Volume 2
Director
A short artistic, experimental, humorous film about saving birds.
Birdsaver Report Volume 2 (버드세이버 보고서 제 2장)
Director
A short artistic, experimental, humorous film about saving birds.
The Blue Curtain
Director
Utilizing the screen recording method, this desktop-essay film successively follows the colour blue that has been used in paintings and videos under expressive or technical decisions. The colour blue in this work connects artworks from different periods in art history and inquires about the truth and delusion in the act of seeing. After a short surfing session, there is a random yet organically constructed archive about the colour blue.
Birdsaver Report Volume 1
Director
The audience encounters a report in blue pages discussing the death of wild birds caused by collisions with transparent soundproof walls. Two hands appear to turn the pages, cut the paper, move the objects and paint, following the text from the report. While birds fly towards a transparent wall, what is the audience colliding with?
Between The Eyes 2
Director
A mass of space continuously emerges between the squared gazes. The gazes around a camera, each pointing at different directions, instantly create worlds of various dimensions. This video attempts to twist the linear connection between those worlds.
Origami Tutorial
Director
The prototype of beauty is modelled by structural software, where it’s associated with the physical and mechanical characteristics of the material. Some faces of the model are constrained, while others force it: in this way, internal tensions are created within the material and displacements are produced and made visible thanks to color gradient and simulated in 3D. Numeric evaluation lead in a deep research on the model of beauty, testing its resistance and investigating hidden properties.