Festival Forum: EXiS 2021 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul
Alpha and Omega
Eunsol Kim
2019
3 Minutes
Festival Forum
Date
October 28–November 11, 2021
Alpha and Omega is a data audiovisual that focuses on the earthquakes that hit Pohang in 2017, and the different reactions of people living in Seoul and those in Pohang. I converted ten years’ worth of data on the seismic activity in the two cities into light and sound. The data was displayed on a graph in light and sound with Seoul’s data on the horizontal axis and Pohang’s on the vertical axis. Sound is L-Seoul’s data and R-Pohang’s data. Alpha and Omega deals with the emotional differences in people’s responses due to asymmetries in information and experience.
Alpha and Omega is one of seven shorts presented by the 18th edition of the Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul – EXiS, as part of a special selection on e-flux Video & Film, streaming for two weeks from October 28 to Novermber 11 and accompanied by a conversation between EXiS 2021 programmer Inhan Cho and e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis. See the full program here.
The program is part of the series Festival Forum on e-flux Video & Film, presenting collaborations with established and emerging moving-image festivals from around the world.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.