Seung-eon Yi is a filmmaker working with animation collaged media, based in Seoul.
Her work draws upon memories and the lingering sensations of experiences from her everyday life. Through animation, she revisits these memories, attempting to unearth their traces and the textures of remembrance. Using hand-crafted animation and painterly expressions, she conveys the abstract aspects of memory and emotion in a more intuitive and sensory manner. In doing so, she connects the deeply personal memories within her work to the audience, expanding them into new narratives and chapters.
She focuses on the often-overlooked, small things we unconsciously interact with and build relationships with through physical experience in our daily lives. In a society inundated with processed images, she sees how we live amid fleeting stimuli that are quickly consumed and discarded.
This era of ephemeral virtual experiences and superficial emotions, she believes, has led her to question the nature of "truth," drawing her attention to the intimate emotions and memories accumulated through physical experiences. Unlike "truth" as a collective agreement, the personal, unique truth one feels, she finds, is difficult to define but possesses an enduring, ambiguous quality that resists being forgotten. She explores what sustains an individual’s sense of existence, uncovering tentative answers in the memories formed through everyday life.
Her animated films invite viewers to reflect on what remains as "truth" in our memories, even amidst the constant changes of the external world and our struggles to adapt to them. It offers an opportunity to contemplate these truths and guides the audience into a sensory meditation, encouraging them to reflect on the ephemeral yet profound essence of their own lived experiences.
->seungyi95@gmail.com
->syi7@saic.edu
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Other Works
CV
Diaglogue : The Arriving and Vanishing
9min 36sec, 2d hand-drawn animation, 2024
A woman and a man are seated at a seaside café, facing each other. And the traces of their emotions and memories pass by in their mind along the sound of the wave.
Screening
2024 50th Seoul Independent Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2024 20th Seoul Indie Anifest, Seoul, Korea
2023 Bucheon International Animation Festival, Bucheon, Korea
With the Support of
2023 Glas Animation Grant
2022 Bucheon International Animation Festival Grant
A Place in Blue
8min 40sec, 2D hand-drawn animation, 2021
Synopsis : A girl is searching for her mother in a grocery store and in a forest. At the end of the forest, she encounters passages from her mother’s life.
Award
2023 Tricky Women Tricky Realities Jury Special Mention
Screening
2023 Tricky Women Tricky Realities, Vienne, Austria
2023 Animac, Spain
2022 BitBang International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 29th International Film Festival Etudia & Anima, Kraków, Poland
2022 23rd San Diego Asian Fillm Festival
2022 20th Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania
2022 18th Seoul Indie-Anifest, Seoul, Korea
2022 20th Imaginaria, Italy
2022 6th Festival of Animation Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 25th Maine International Film Festival, Maine, USA
2022 International Animated FIlm Festival Animator, Poznań, Poland
2022 La Guarimba Film Festival, Calabira, Italy
2022 Gene Siskel Film Festivall, Chicago, USA
2022 17th Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece
2022 11th American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Palm Spring, USA
Perhaps by Depravity He Actually Meant Tenderness
4min, experimental animation, 2019
Synopsis: Seoul Metro’s circle line number 2. Subway train doors are the curtains on the stage. A lot of passengers get on and off and monologs of three characters begin on the stage.
A Story On the Toilet
2min 11sec, experimental animation, 2019
Synopsis: Office workers sitting on the toilet complain about their stressful lives at work. Their complaints are drawn on tissues and flushed out through the toilet.
Screening
2020 16th Indie-Anifest, Seoul, Korea