Korean Cinema

The Image of Happiness: The First Scene

Motoko, HA Sangcheol
Korea 2024 22min DCP Color/B&W Experimental 12World Premiere

Schedule

MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 7

Date

2024. 05. 03

Time

17:30

Code

251
H
KE
12
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 8

Date

2024. 05. 03

Time

17:30

Code

252
H
KE
12
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5

Date

2024. 05. 06

Time

20:30

Code

572
H
KE
12
GV
CGV Jeonjugosa 4

Date

2024. 05. 07

Time

10:30

Code

605
H
KE
12
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5

Date

2024. 05. 10

Time

17:00

Code

943
H
KE
12

Overview

After the invention of photography, the development of film devices, catalyzed by Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, led to the birth of film in 1888 with Le Prince's device in the Roundhay Garden Scene. This work explores illusions, continuity and spacetime in between, attempting an audiovisual experiment to connect images of death with the "First Scene."

* This film contains lighting that may affect photosensitive viewers.

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Review

Motoko and Ha Sangcheol’s The Image of Happiness: The First Scene borrows the records from the first silent movie in history, Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), which came about in the late 19th century from a collective yearning to capture how the world moves. The short silent film, running 2 seconds and consisting of 20 frames, captures four people going around in a circle in a garden. The Image of Happiness: The First Scene optically dissects the original and circular images of the short silent film and restructures them. In this process, the film images are reborn not as a model of camera obscura projected in a dark theater but as a praxinoscope model that plays as a continuing apparition on cylinders and mirrors. (KIM Byeonggyu)

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Credit

  • DirectorMotoko, HA Sangcheol
  • MusicMotoko
  • EditorHA Sangcheol
  • SoundMotoko

Film Source

HA Sangcheol⎜hasc.default@gmail.com

Director

Motoko

Motoko was invited to EXiS (2023) and DMZDocs (2023) for the films A Movie (2023) and A Movie: Model 2 (2023) with HA Sangcheol.

HA Sangcheol

Ha Sangcheol was invited to EXiS (2023) and DMZDocs (2023) for the films A Movie (2023) and A Movie: Model 2 (2023) with Motoko.