Around Your Eyes

video, miniDV, 59min, 2001

‘Around Your Eyes' is a work in which I conducted the planning, compilation, and supervision, and from notices that I had published regarding the plan to gather participants in several university-related websites of Korea, a total of 8 people, 4 Korean participants that gathered along with 4 Japanese, and we spent approximately 2 weeks living together while the film was made. During the joint production, the eight members were every day randomly divided into 3 groups which head off to a convenient destination to carry out activities, and the method of production was for each of the groups to film their own behavior with 6 cameras. In this production, the nationality boundaries of Japanese and Korean people were transgressed, and we attempted with this compilation to paint the picture of how the internal events of various territories are attached thereto, to reveal how the territory that arose from surroundings of the temporary human gathering determined the behavior of the humans inside, and how the same person's attitude and behavior changes in reaction to changes in the territory.