Experiencing Interruptions?

Dear Chaemin

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of video letters are sent to the director’s sister in Seoul. Should we want to return to the ‘old normal’?

The autofictional film juxtaposes the Korean and Dutch contexts of contact tracing, biopolitics, and crowd control practices, each of which intensifies the stigmatization and violence against queer communities and people of Asian descent.

  • Cyan Bae
    Director
  • Cyan Bae
    Writer
  • Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
    Producer
  • waterparken
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    채민이에게
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 10, 2020
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    Korean
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
  • Seoul International Women's Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Republic of
    August 26, 2021
    Asian Premiere
    Grand Prize / Asian Shorts
  • The Hague Film Festival
    The Hague
    Netherlands
    August 27, 2021
    Best Film / Pandemic Chronicles
  • Leiden Shorts
    Leiden
    Netherlands
    September 2, 2021
    Regional Premiere
    National Award / National Competition
  • Zeitgeist Film Festival
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    June 4, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival
    Ramsgate
    United Kingdom
    June 3, 2021
    UK Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ+ Film Festival
    Boston, MA
    United States
    April 1, 2021
    International Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Nederlands Film Festival
    Utrecht
    Netherlands
    December 9, 2020
    Nominated for the Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds Award
  • KABK Graduation Show
    The Hague
    Netherlands
    September 10, 2020
    World Premiere
    Nominated for the Royal Academy Master Department Award
Director Biography - Cyan Bae

Cyan Bae (1993, KR) is a practice-based researcher based in The Hague. Her practice integrates filmmaking, visual journalism, and graphic design to respond to and participate in sociotechnical discourses. Her recent works question and disrupt (techno-)solutionism and cis-/heteronormative infrastructures of society, from artificial intelligence to archaeology.

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