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AYDO

AYDO – A Reflection on Loss, Trauma & Time.

A short dance film born from a deeply personal place, reflecting on loss & mental trauma. An attempt to give shape to the unspeakable, honouring the silence of pain and the courage it takes to process.

  • Edward Jillings
    Cinematographer
  • Vittoria Maiolo
    Gaffer
  • Anna Succol
    Editor
  • Sophie Eels
    Set designer
  • Chloe Bellou
    Dancers
  • Yoon-Joo Jee
    Dancers
  • AM sin
    Sound Composers
  • Yoon-Joo Jee
    Director & Writer
  • Yoon-Joo Jee
    Producer
  • Chloe Bellou
    Choreographer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,025 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Cyprus Dance Film Festival

    Cyprus
    May 23, 2025
    Official Selection
Director Biography

Yoon-Joo is a South Korean/French interdisciplinary artist, film director, performer, experience designer and social entrepreneur, currently based in London. Working as a freelance, she creates across movement, film, and immersive storytelling to spark emotion, connection and creativity.

Her work has been commissioned and shown by organisations such as UNESCO, ChangeNOW, the Cannes Short Film Festival, Open Society Foundation, Google.org, Brighton Dome, and the European Union (EUSIC). I’ve also had the honour of being selected as an ASPEN Fellow, a Yunus & Youth Fellow, and named one of the Top 100 Women by the Euclid Network.

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Director Statement

AYDO is a reflection on two losses that shattered my world: my father, and my 20-day-old nephew. Two lives, from opposite ends of the journey, gone too soon. The film was born from the silence that follows loss. That strange, suspended time when everything around you carries on, yet inside, nothing feels the same. I wanted to give form to the unspoken, those inner thoughts that spiral in solitude, the weight that lingers in the chest, the sense that no one else could ever quite understand what you’re going through.

Through dance, I explored how grief moves through the body, how it contracts and expands, isolates and exposes. The choreography is stripped back and intimate, grounded in raw emotion rather than performance. Each movement holds tension: between presence and absence. AYDO mirrors the inwardness of grief and the shadows of the lost ones. How the world narrows when we lose someone. How time stretches and thoughts loop.

This film is for anyone who has loved and lost. May it be a companion in the loneliness. A reminder that even in our most isolated moments, we are not truly alone...