Jeamin Cha’s Hospital is the first official trailer of Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Based on the idea of the similarity between museums and hospitals, Cha illustrates a night scene in a general hospital where caregivers walk for exercise. In practice, the patient’s family members or caregivers would walk along hospital corridors late at night for exercise. In a hospital, a space for the patient to rehabilitate, caregivers often experience deeper depression than the patients. The first trailer tells about the place and the time of that walking.
The second official trailer of Mediacity Seoul 2016 was inspired by Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poem “Two Billion Light Years of Solitude” from which the biennale’s title NERIRI KIRURU HARARA came. The film, shot in a subway garage, attempts to deliver certain kinds of sensibilities; it expresses some nuances through the conjunction “or” from the line of a poem—”neririing or kiruruing or hararaing.” The work’s sensibilities include an unstrict state of mind, a state of quietly looking at something, and a state of imagining something in puzzlement. The work represents a specific situation in which people look for something in a subway terminal.
