Self-Reflexivity_Video as Traveling Companion
"Non-fiction films use ambiguous or duplicated reality as a theme to cast self-reflexive awareness on the cinematic processes"
- Bill Nichols
Episode. 1_Fragments of the memory
"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life"
- Luis Bunuel
Episode. 2
ep.2
the location of the memory b/w fact and fiction circulates |
Episode. 3
ep.3
the memory is never owned by strangers, but they still have a touch of familiarity |
Episode. 4
ep.4
its fragments get scattered on the boundary of your reshaped memory |
Episode. 5
ep.5
self-reflexivity has no orders, no one knows which comes first |
Episode. 6
ep.6
people in the frame and the observational camera on your own t.v set: (o) or )o( or... nothing? |
Episode. 7
ep.7
you cannot touch it & they never gonna meet together |
Episode. 8
ep.8
anamorphic mirror to the immensity of beloved city: seoul, my soul has been buried for the travelling |
Episode. 9
ep.9
keep recording, keep rolling the VHS tape on your head - The city is like a film on fast forward |
Episode. 10
ep.10
the only moment of honesty: rewind the video |
Episode. 11
ep.11
"chaos is a friend of mine" - Bob Dylan |
Episode. 12
ep.12
loss of human communication, it is lost in translation to me |
Episode. 13
ep.13
the island of strangers: observing among the observers |
Self - Reflexivity
Self-reflexivity means "consciousness turning back on itself," and reflexive cinema is about films which call attention to themselves as cinematic constructs. Reflexivity points to its own mask and invites the public to examine its design and texture. Reflexive works break with art as enchantment and call attention to their own factitiousness as textual constructs.