Expanded Cinema

SQUARE BLACK

Mackerel Safranski
Korea 2023 12min DCP Color/B&W Experimental GWorld Premiere

Schedule

CGV Jeonjugosa 8

Date

2024. 05. 04

Time

20:30

Code

367
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GV
JEONJU Digital Independent Cinema

Date

2024. 05. 06

Time

21:00

Code

558
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GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5

Date

2024. 05. 09

Time

13:30

Code

821
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Overview

In SQUARE BLACK, the transparent flakes in the pitch-black box exchange images to create and dismantle a narrative. Light announces its existence with the black speck and flicker of the translucent pieces. The story begins one day when three people who understood the quotes on the city walls gather with their belongings to where the quotes refer. Three strangers exchange greetings and pray five times daily whenever the light enters.

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Review

The artist picked up the camera while traveling on a bus. The process of moving is a good time for contemplation and is also appropriate for creating a story. Artist Mackerel Safranski, who has been focusing on painting, offers unexpected visual pleasure through the combination and separation of real images and paintings. In a world overflowing with resources and knowledge but the human race is reaching an existential limit, the artist creates a new myth. (Sung MOON)

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Credit

  • DirectorMackerel Safranski
  • ProducerMackerel Safranski
  • ScreenplayMackerel Safranski
  • CinematographyMackerel Safranski
  • GafferMackerel Safranski
  • Production DesignMackerel Safranski
  • MusicEJRM
  • EditorMackerel Safranski
  • SoundMackerel Safranski

Film Source

Mackerel Safranski⎜mackerelsafranski@gmail.com

Director

Mackerel Safranski

Born in 1984. Working as a visual artist, she works on video works with drawings such as Communal Confession (2021) and Feed the Light (2022).