The film is a visual experiment dealing with a political rupture namely 'The Candle Light Revolution' in South Korea in the winter 2016-2017. Instead of narrativising the revolution the film focuses on the repetitiveness of images of revolutions in order to deliver the affects of ‘negative utopia’ present at the square. Performance and pre-enactment were employed as new documenting tools, as the film creates dialogues between the past archive and the newly constructed sce...more

The film is a visual experiment dealing with a political rupture namely 'The Candle Light Revolution' in South Korea in the winter 2016-2017. Instead of narrativising the revolution the film focuses on the repetitiveness of images of revolutions in order to deliver the affects of ‘negative utopia’ present at the square. Performance and pre-enactment were employed as new documenting tools, as the film creates dialogues between the past archive and the newly constructed scenes. The work is largely inspired by Nagisa Oshima’s 1970 film <The Man Who Left His Will on Film> from which the excerpts were also used.less