LAURIE McDONALD VIDEO
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A Dedication to Lee Choon-Sop, 1982
excerpt 01:38; original running time 03:04


Lee Choon-Sop was a Korean theology student imprisoned for protesting the death of a fellow theology student. 
A Dedication to Lee Choon-Sop
was created for an Amnesty International fund-raiser to aid a group of prisoners of conscience detained in repressive countries.  The video features a series of photographic images projected onto
various materials, including cloth and sheet rock, that are manipulated to suggest the torture to which Lee was
subjected by the Korean government.  A photographic slide image of a man's nude back, projected onto sheet rock, is beaten with a wooden pole and as the sheet rock crumbles, the image suggests the pealing away of layers of skin.  An image of a man's nude torso is projected onto cloth; hands emerge from the top of the frame and roll up the cloth and the image of the man with it, suggesting the dissolution of the body and soul.



Exhibitions/Awards/Press
Award Winner, Brooklyn Arts Council 21st Expo, 1988.
Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, NO-TV #4, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1986.

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