CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS:
Spacecell / Samguri: Korean Artist Run Film Labs at Mono No Aware
A selection of recent films from Korea handmade film labs Spacecell & Samguri Film Lab
with Filmmaker Jonathan Seungjoon Lee (KOR) * IN PERSON *
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH @ MONO NO AWARE : CINEMA ARTS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
MONO NO AWARE 33 FLATBUSH AVE, 3RD FLOOR REAR - LIMITED ATTENDANCE TO 40 - MASKS AVAILABLE
DOORS 7 PM – STARTS PROMPTLY AT 7:30 PM – FREE TO ATTEND
TRT, 60 minutes. Additional time for discussion / Q & A with Jonathan Seungjoon Lee *IN PERSON *
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Spacecell and Samguri are two Korean artist-run film labs where filmmakers work with analog film often in community. This program brings together 16mm works from the labs. A structural film that dissolves as it unfolds, a short about crying and language, a music video, a quiet portrait of a summer's end, and a pinhole film shot across sacred sites in Jeju.
PROGRAM:
Mid-Air Thief, 'Moons', Joonhee Kim
16mm to Digital | BW | Digital Sound | 3min | 2024 | South Korea
A music video for 'Moons' by Mid-Air Thief
No landscape ever made me cry, Sujin Lee
16mm to Digital | B&W | silent | 5min | 2025 | South Korea
I am a crier, and this film tells stories about holding back—or not holding back—tears. Words break down and often turn into crying, and the film tries to explain those tears. It is also about an ambivalent attitude: being personal while trying to maintain a distance from these emotions; wanting to talk about crying but not quite being able to.
Magpie Eye, Jonathan Seungjoon Lee
16mm to Digital | Color | Digital | 5:47 | 2026 | Jeju Island, South Korea
Magpie Eye is an analog film work that explores the immaterial realities of our world through the lens of Korean dream journey traditions (monguyrok). Using a 16mm handmade pinhole camera, the work captures ritual sites, sacred trees, and activist sites in Jeju Island. Like the magpie's iridescent blue that appears beneath its seemingly black and white feathers, this work reveals what is invisible or dismissed as unreal, offering an alternative way of seeing and understanding the spirit world around us.
Singing Cicada, Boyoon Choi
16mm to Digital | BW, Color | Silent | 6min | 2024 | South Korea
A film made with things collected in the summer. Between moving images of a woman shot in the summer, the wings of a dead cicada repeatedly appear.
slice of time, Kim Hyun-su
16mm to Digital | B&W | Optical + digital sound | 21 min | 2026 | Seoul, South Korea
A slice of time moves towards the end of time.
Field Rush, Park Kyujae
16mm to Digital | B&W | Silent | 3 min | 2024 | Seoul, South Korea
The camera rushes through a field of flowers.
Glistening Seagull / Chae Yu / super8 to digital / color / stereo / 11min / 2023 / South Korea
You moved as if shimmering and rippling water, and I danced above like a seagull.
Filmmaker biographies:
Sujin Lee explores the "language space" around her through text, performance, and moving image.
Boyoon Choi is a filmmaker based in Korea.
Kim Hyun-su continues to work primarily in experimental documentary forms. Currently researching mixed media, Kim creates films that imbue personal memories with narrative.
Park Kyujae is a South Korean filmmaker who primarily works with analog film, exploring visual perception, materiality, and poetic imagery.
Chae Yu is a filmmaker based in Seoul and Chicago. Her films observe faces, gestures, and small repeated movements across domestic, transient, and outdoor spaces, tracing how bodies leave impressions in places built not to hold them. Working between fiction and documentary, she follows how these physical and spatial residues accumulate into collective memory, and how that memory quietly distorts in the process. Her work has been presented internationally at various film festivals and venues.
Jonathan Seungjoon Lee (2000 / Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Korean American video artist and filmmaker working with themes of family, diaspora, and ecology.
MONO NO AWARE SCREENING SERIES:
The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series will present the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special interactive programs in-person. Our hope is to engage the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion. This series is made possible by support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).