Seung-eon Yi



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
A Place in Blue
8min 40sec, 2D hand-drawn, 2021

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 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, USAA Place in Blue is a hand drawn and painted animated film about ambiguity.
The presence of a mother through the eyes of her daughter has an inevitable element of ambiguity, searching for the core of who your mother is. A mother is someone you think you know best, but at times she transforms into stranger, someone outside of you.
The discrepancy of this known and unknown woman becomes deep sadness. But it is a pure kind of sadness, and a luxurious release that cannot be compromised.
All of the obscure emotions toward one’s presence, are implicated in this ambiguous word, blue.