During 1960-90s, several theaters and public spaces in Seoul and other cities, such as Pagoda theater, Keukdong theater, and Seongdong theater, had been appropriated as the crutial ‘cruising spot’ by male sexual minorities. Upon neoliberal development of techno-lifestyle, South Korea turns into the virtualized network society and the advent of internet and smart phone applications has led to take more private and anonymous way to meet each other for male sexual minorities...more

During 1960-90s, several theaters and public spaces in Seoul and other cities, such as Pagoda theater, Keukdong theater, and Seongdong theater, had been appropriated as the crutial ‘cruising spot’ by male sexual minorities. Upon neoliberal development of techno-lifestyle, South Korea turns into the virtualized network society and the advent of internet and smart phone applications has led to take more private and anonymous way to meet each other for male sexual minorities than ever before. Now the main stage of cruising has moved from the physical spaces to the virtual fields. It seems there is no spatial validity as the Cruising Spot any longer.
Glow Job is a multi-scaled project woven from bodies, movies, and cruising spaces focused on several theaters which have been vanishing or had already vanished in Seoul. This film attempts to find out how we can face left debris of history through movie, revealing the condensed and vanished past-space and simultaneously reconnecting it to the present. Glow Job is also a part of a ritualistic project performed inside and out of the screen.less