Inhan Cho in conversation with Lukas Brasiskis

The Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, a.k.a EXiS, was founded in 2004 by Moving Image Forum in order to screen experimental films and contemporary moving images that explore the unknown forms and territories of cinema. The festival values artists’ films made with an original vision that take on challenges and aesthetic adventures, and is one of the few places in Asia that still screen works by artists who work with celluloid film.

This past September, EXiS held its 18th edition in theaters in Seoul, South Korea, screening over 120 films and featuring curated programs, retrospectives, and performances in addition to the main competition.

In this recorded interview, EXiS 2021 programmer Inhan Cho discusses this year’s edition with e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis, and the selection of films picked for e-flux audiences.

The conversation is presented as part of e-flux Video & Film’s special feature of EXiS 2021, accompanying a two-week group screening of films by Kim Boyong, Yun Choi, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Jeon Junehyuck, Eun Sol Kim, Roh Youngmee, and Ji Hye Yeom, streaming on e-flux Video & Film for two weeks from Thursday, October 28 through Thursday, November 11, 2021.

Watch them here.

This program is part of the series Festival Forum on e-flux Video & Film, presenting collabrations with established and emerging moving-image festivals from around the world.

Inhan Cho is an artist and researcher of artists’ moving images. His works have screened at international film festivals and exhibition venues including New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images Festival, EXiS, DMZ Docs, Arkipel, and the Seoul National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. In addition to his personal work, he is a co-founder of Asian Artist Moving Image Platform (AAMP). Currently he works as a programmer of the Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS).

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.