CROSSINGS
CROSSINGS by Ayoung Kim
2019 | Single Channel Video | 3'
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Berlin International FIlm Festival - Forum Expanded, Germany
Crossings, a short video in a vertical format, traces the escape journey of a young man called Ahmed Askar, a Yemeni martial artist and former national athlete. He was also one of the performers in Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters' Plot.
Askar, tracing his route over a world map on a table, talks about how he travelled from North Yemen to South Yemen after the outbreak of war, then on to Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Malaysia before eventually coming to South Korea through Jeju Island in summer 2018. Juxtaposed against the foregoing is casual video footage of roads, landscapes, and an airport landing strip, shot by another Yemeni man who escaped Yemen to Germany. The footage was shot on a mobile phone in a low resolution while he was on the road.
Although seemingly mundane and natural, there is a sudden strange feeling while looking at this footage, when the viewer realises that it was taken while fleeing the war.
์ธ๋ก ๋น์จ, 3๋ถ ๋ถ๋์ ์งง์ ์์์ผ๋ก, ์๋ฉ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ํ ๊ฒฉํฌ๊ธฐ ์ ์์๋ ์ํ๋ฉ๋ ์์ค์นด์ ํผ๋์ ๋์ ์ ๋๋ฌ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ 2019๋ โช๋ค๊ณต์ฑ ๊ณ๊ณก 2: ํธ๋ฆญ์คํฐ ํ๋กฏโซ์ ์ถ์ฐํ ์ธ ์ฌ๋์ ํผํฌ๋จธ ์ค ํ๋์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ์ฑ ์ ์์ ํผ์ณ์ง ์ธ๊ณ์ง๋๋ฅผ ์ง์ด ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ 2018๋ ์๋ฉ์ ์์ ํผํด ๋ถ์๋ฉ์์ ๋จ์๋ฉ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ํ๋์ง, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฐ๋์๋ผ๋น์, ์๋จ, ๋ง๋ ์ด์์๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ์ ์ฃผ๋๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ํญํ๋์ง์ ์ฌ์ ๊ณผ ๋์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ค๋ ค์ค๋ค. ์์์ ๋ํ ๋๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฉ์ธ ๋จ์ฑ์ด ์๋ฉ์ ํ์ถํด ๋ ์ผ์ ๋ค๋ค๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง์ ์ฌ์ ์ ํธ๋ํฐ์ผ๋ก ํํ์ด ์ดฌ์ํ ํธํฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ฐฝ๋ฐ ๋๋ก์ ์์ฐ์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ ํ์ฃผ๋ก์ ์ฐฉ๋ฅํ ๋นํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด๋ค.
๋ฎ์ ํ์ง๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ ์ง๊ทนํ ์ผ์์ ์ด๊ณ ๋๊ธํด ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ํ ์ด ์์ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ค์ด, ์ค์ ํผ๋์ ๋์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ฐํ ์ํฉ ๋์ค ์ดฌ์๋์์์ ์ง๊ฐํ๋ ์๊ฐ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ค ๋ฏ์ค์์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.