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.

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Other Works CV
Diaglogue : The Arriving and Vanishing
9min 36sec, 2d hand-drawn animation, 2024

Synopsis : 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

Funding
2023 Glas Animation Grant
2022 Bucheon International Animation Festival Grant
 During the time of breakup, where only mundane phrases are exchanged, countless emotions and memories flow beneath the surface of that restrained moment. This project began with the aim of visualizing the condensation of emotions from that experience and the textures of memories brushed by those emotions.

While romantic relationships have been a subject and theme in countless media and works from the past to the present, most of them depict the dramatic narratives and dynamics between the individuals as the core of the story. However, in reality, breakups sometimes lack the dramatic development portrayed in dramas or movies. As a result, the breakup we ultimately face can (though not always) sneak up on us, blurred by emotions dulled by the inexorable passage of time. Just as the energy within human relationships gradually fades without any specific reason, akin to how we slowly approach a state of calmness called death within the vast flow of time, the breakup too can arrive unnoticed. In the face of this inevitable phenomenon, we and our partners exchange formal phrases, while behind us, we hold a funeral for the emotions and the other person that fade into the past.

“Dialogue : Arriving and Vanishing” departs from the conventional forms typically employed by the romance genre. It captures the time of parting between characters with a contemplative and restrained perspective, while bringing abstract subjects like emotions and memories to the surface, providing the audience with a more vivid sensory experience.