It’s funny how life goes… or takes turns & twists.
Around a decade and a half ago, I started this website to post articles and little reviews… but the reviews then got longer & soon came interviews with well-known or lesser known directors and other filmmakers in the Korean film industry, the Japanese film world and well, from all kinds of places. You can find such interviews with these individuals elsewhere on MiniMiniMovie.com – and bizarrely that ‘Mini Mini’ aspect would revisit me again, in the form of video art… Keep reading ;)
Alongside all this, I recommenced my scriptwriting and filmmaking side, and just about managed to keep this site and those films I started to make running in parallel. This did get harder though when I started podcasts (a Korean culture one – NoSoKoPo, a filmmaking one and others) but here we are and I’ve managed to multi-task… miraculously!
With all the interactions with filmmakers, members of Korean art groups and all kinds of people, perhaps it was inevitable that I would suddenly get commissioned for further tasks – two of these things happened in the same year… 2017. I was commissioned to take part in and film an event on Jeju Island, a place I’d visited a few times already even at this time. Whilst on Jeju, I was frantically putting together some video art for Kingston Museum… and again this was in between filming & collaborating with Koreans and others on a Korea-Finland week-long cultural whirlwind of an experience on that island.
So… Not only did my ‘filming things in Korea’ continue (I first started my trips, research and documenting back in 2012) but also began my love of making video art.
It’s with video art in mind, that I felt compelled to write this little article… but also with that other factor in mind, the year of 2017…!
Yep… 2017, on that whirlwind of a trip in Korea, I also visited and captured on film/video the Mokpo harbour area where the tragic Sewol Ferry stood. Yes, it had been taken there that year, 3 years after the 2014 disaster itself.
Those video art creations – as well as my fiction films and feature documentary [referring to one of my latest films, “S.E.W.O.L. – Sealed Eternally With Our Love”] – continued from that day, on and off and now I’ve a handful of video art pieces, montages etc which have been shown here and there in various places in this crazy wide world.
Well, as I sit right now in the part of that ‘crazy wide world’ known as Chiang Mai, Thailand I’m preparing to leave later on this week to showcase 3 snippets of video art in my beloved Seoul, South Korea.
To find out a little more about how this came about, perhaps watch this little video:
However, perhaps the best way to elaborate on what this showcase, and indeed collaborative exhibition in Seoul involves, I’ll simply post wording from a couple of recent social media posts of mine – these explain what these 3 very own ‘Mini Mini Movies’ of mine are concerning:
🇰🇷🚇 So, one of the projects I’ll be working on this year relates to the horrific Daegu Metro fire which occurred two decades ago (February 18, 2003 to be precise) and if you visit @dialogue.seoul between the 14th & 29th March you’ll be able to see a little more from this work-in-progress, as well an older video art relating to Korea + a snippet from my 2025 film/s, @sewol_s.e.w.o.l … 🎗️
I’m not only proud of how this latest video art is taking shape but also honoured to be collaborating in this exhibition with other great artists and of course the @thehechyeomoyeomagazine / @thehechyeomoyeo who are making this happen! I’ll also be at the Opening Night of the 14th March but happy to meet anyone throughout the exhibition’s duration (& indeed during my Seoul stay, which is currently looking like mid-March to mid-April … DM me though!)
Lastly, this exhibition is a ‘sister’ one with that of the Washington exhibit… 🇰🇷🇺🇸
MUSIC by Mobygratis / @moby.gratis
“🇰🇷🖼️🎬🙏🏻 POST 1 of 2:
Thanks to the guys at @thehechyeomoyeo (& the venue @dialogue.seoul ) and For the first time ever in South Korea, a clip from a NEW video art of mine will be screened in SEOUL… along with a snippet from another one & a full-length video art project from several years ago (which has only been seen by a few people).
All of the artwork also on display is by fabulous creatives & alongside those is my video showcasing the 3 projects mentioned – the total runtime is almost 20 minutes, but you don’t need to view all of it in its entirety… ㅋㅋ
But in all seriousness, one of those projects is one I’ll be working further on this year & it relates to the horrific Daegu Metro fire which occurred two decades ago (February 18, 2003 to be precise) and if you visit this @thehechyeomoyeomagazine exhibition between the 14th & 29th March you’ll be able to see a little more from this work-in-progress, as well that older video art, a kind of lighthearted poem to Korean culture + a snippet from my 2025 film/s, @sewol_s.e.w.o.l … (#🎗️
I’m not only proud of how that latest [Daegu] video art is taking shape but also honoured to be collaborating in this exhibition with other great artists and of course the ‘HCMY’ collective who are making this happen!
I’ll be at the Opening Night of the 14th March but happy to meet anyone throughout the exhibition’s duration (& indeed during my Seoul stay, which is currently looking like mid-March to mid-April … DM me though!)
Lastly, this exhibition is a ‘sister’ one with that of the Washington exhibit… 🇰🇷🇺🇸 which also gets mention / featured in @thehechyeomoyeomagazine ;)
I should also give a shout-out to the Chiang Mai @framefilmclub.cnx guys because without their great work – which I’ve been fortunate to screen other films of mine at – I may not have been made aware of ‘HMCY’ or indeed the bar / creative space known as Dialogue!
MUSIC: “Spring” by @gonnechoi / @iamgonneofficial “
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Mini Mini in two ways – short videos and tablet screen ?
Thanks for reading…
