Delivery Dancer's Sphere
딜리버리 댄서의 구
dir. Ayoung Kim
short film, fiction, experimental, sci-fi
South Korea / Korean / 25 minutes / 2023
Synopsis
Ernst Mo works for courier service Delivery Dancer. Every day, she transports an endless stream of parcels, following algorithmically generated routes through a labyrinthine Seoul. After she runs into an alternative version of herself, her reality slowly starts to crack – with all the attendant consequences.
Written and directed by Ayoung Kim
Production : Seesaw Pictures - Heejung Oh
Cinematography : Park Seyoung
Sound : Đ.K (aka Dang Khoa Chau)
Editing : Lee Hyunji, Ayoung Kim, Yu Chae
Cast : Jang Seo-kyung
Artist's bio
Ayoung KIM (South Korea) is a visual artist as well as a filmmaker. Kim adopts the devices of speculative storytelling to evoke unfamiliar forms of reading, listening and thinking about the conditions of the world by focusing on unlikely encounters of ideas. Her projects take the forms of video, sonic fiction, VR, text, performance and game simulation and are presented as exhibitions, performances and publications. Kim exhibited and screened at Venice Biennale (2015); Palais de Tokyo (2016); Korea Artist Prize (2019); Sharjah Film Platform (2019, 2020); Berlinale (2020); Asian Art Biennial (2021); Videobrasil (2021) and Sharjah Biennial (2023). http://ayoungkim.com
Festivals & screenings
World premiere : IFFR 2023 - Tiger Shorts Competition, NL
BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, NO
CPH:DOX - Artists & Auteurs, DK
Videoex - International Competition, CH
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, KR
Vilnius Short Film Festival, LT
Art Basel Film Programme, CH
Image Forum Film Festival, JP
BLON Animation and Games festival, LT
Ars Electronica, AT
VAFT x Helsinki IFF collaborative screening, FI
Singapore International Film Festival, SG
Filmfest Dresden, DE
International Women's Film Festival Dortmund, DE
Korean Cultural Centre, UK
C-LAB, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, TW
World Film Festival of Bangkok, TH
MoMA Modern Mondays - 'An Evening with Ayoung Kim', US
Australian Cinematheque / Queensland Art Gallery, AU
Exhibitions
Gallery Hyundai Seoul- 'Syntax and Sorcery', solo show, KR
Frieze London 2023 - 'Artist-to-Artist': Ayoung Kim proposed by Haegue Yang, UK
PYLON-Lab, Dresden - 'Lucid Echos: featuring Shu Lea Cheang and Ayoung Kim', DE
Hamburger Bahnhof - 'Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over', solo show, DE
Collections
TATE, UK
Awards
Prix Ars Electronica - Golden Nica Award - 'New Animation Art'
Terayama Shūji Prize - Image Forum Film Festival
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