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The footage in this film comes from one of the ancient capital cities
in Thailand called Ayutthaya. The place is well known for ancient
ruins and it’s historical tragedy, an invasion by the Burmese
in the age of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya.
The scene shows a security guard standing next to an ancient ruin
site. The footage has been digitally modified and duplicated. By mirroring
the image, a new image emerges of an entrance between trees that,
in the words of the artist: “could be a gateway to a tragedy
from the ancient past.”
The image in this film as with many of Jung-Chul Hur’s videos
creates a kind of Rorschach test for the viewer. Phantom images immerge
from the patterns created by the reflected source material and figures
sometimes mysteriously appear from behind the mirrored image. Like
the Rorschach test, the interpretation of the work is largely up to
the viewer’s imagination.
Sounds in this film were recorded at the same time as the images were
filmed. Voices from people at the scene and other environmental noises
were blended and distorted together creating an eerie atmospheric
effect.
Again in the words of the artist “The “Entrance”
in this piece is not just an entrance to the past but also an entrance
to the viewers mind.”
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Jung-Chul
Hur
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País, Ciudad: Corea
/ Masan
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Sub-categoría:
Video
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Fecha
de realización: 2005.
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Programas
y técnicas: Adobe After Effects, Sound Studio
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Jung-Chul HUR is a video artist
born in Masan, Korea in 1972. He did his B.F.A in Industrial
Design at the Konkuk University in Korea from where he went
on to complete an M.A in Visual Communication at the Kent Institute
of Art & Design in UK between 1999 and 2000.
His videos have been shown at international festivals including
Medi@terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival (Greece);
VideoLisboa 2001 (Portugal); The IV International Digital Art
Exhibit and Colloquium 2002 (Habana, Cuba); VideoMedeja 2003
(Yugoslavia) and VIDEOEX 2003 Experimental film & video
Festival (Zurich, Switzerland).
Jung-Chul’s video ‘A Beautiful Dream’ showed
in 13th Macao Arts Festival 2002 (Macao); Images Festival 2003
of Independent Film & Video (Toronto, Canada); Most Significant
Bytes 2003 (Ohio, USA); Breakthroughs: New Experimental Films
from Asia at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C, USA).
Last year his video “New Territory” participated
in Microwave International Media Art Festival 2004 (Hong Kong).
He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand and teaches in Communication
Design at the School of Architecture & Design, King Mongkut’s
University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT).
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