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.
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.
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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