A PLACE IN BLU
A girl is searching for her mother in a grocery store and in a forest. At the end of the forest, she encounters passages from her mother’s life.
Director: Seung eon Yi
Writer: Seung eon Yi
Music and Sound design: Adam Abou-Gad
Animator: Seung eon Yi, Eujin Kim
Voice actor: Seoin Shin, Seung eon Yi
Country of Origin: Republic of Korea
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
Aspect Ratio: 16/9
Process: Color
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Seung-eon Yi is a film maker working with animation collaged media, based in Seoul and Chicago.
She mainly describes in poetic form, the emotions and memories that she is deeply involved in, from the personal to the observational.
Her artistic language explores diverse methodologies, especially analog materials, and fragmented imagery.
She believes in the power of the poetic effect of the material as a gesture of healing and understanding, and in challenging narrative conventions.
Director Statement
A Place in Blue is a hand drawn and painted animated film about ambiguity.
The presence of a mother through the eyes of her daughter has an inevitable element of ambiguity, searching for the core of who your mother is. A mother is someone you think you know best, but at times she transforms into stranger, someone outside of you. The discrepancy of this known and unknown woman becomes deep sadness. But it is a pure kind of sadness, and a luxurious release that cannot be compromised.
All of this is encompassed in the Korean word, “푸르다” [pureuda] which means blue. All of the obscure emotions toward one’s presence, are implicated in this ambiguous word, blue.
My film is usually inspired while I am observing a minute moment of daily life. I like to express in works the emotions I earned thru that observation. And I hope that people empathize with the stories of my works and can be consoled by them.
I am not that much interested in creating novel, unusual stories. Rather, I am interested in creating small ordinary stories of our daily moments, discovering tiny hidden values that might be overlooked, and delivering those values thru my animations in diverse methodologies. I want to share there is a great deal more that is meaningful in our daily moments than we expect.
By vividly visualizing tiny yet precious values I spot in our daily moments, I hope my animations will be lyrics unveiling emotional charms of daily moments, so that the viewers would feel placid whirlpool tranquilly spinning in their heart and be soothed.
