Evidence

Jeamin Cha - video still - Autodidact - 2014

The Seoul-based artist and filmmaker, Jeamin Cha presents the Autodidact (2014), a film based on real events, which shows thirty years of the anguished efforts of a father to detect the clouded death of his son, as he was serving at Korean Army in 1984. The vital need of the father to shed light on the uncanny death of his son, leads him to taught himself forensic medicine and to use this knowledge as a weapon in “an endless battle against the shameless authorities”.

Mariana Vassileva - videostill - Kronstadt - 2014

Mariana Vassileva represented historical story of Kronstadt, which is St. Petersburg's main seaport and century-old army-town near the head of Gulf of Finland in Russia and a ballet dancer from the St. Petersburg Mariinski Ballet. The main part of the footage for “Kronstadt” (2014), has been combined with studio sequences of the ballet dancer and images found on the internet, television advertisement traversing the urban and natural landscapes of Kronstadt. As a historical site for political struggle, to which Kronstadt's famous fortifications unrelentingly attest, the performing ballet and its aesthetic expression controvert the shooting cannon in her video. However, what if we rethink about this that Russia's current cultural climate of censorship and infringement of freedom, or consider that we comfort to passively sit back and read in a narrative mode?