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This isn’t What It Appears
films by Heehyun Choi and Justin Jinsoo Kim
Accent Sisters
October 5, 2025
An evening of films by emerging experimental filmmakers Heehyun Choi and Justin Jinsoo Kim, with both artists in attendance. Choi and Kim each pursue radical formal strategies through the mobilization of archival images, addressing expansive themes of memory, colonial violence, preservation, and mythology.
Working with 16mm and Super 8 film, Heehyun Choi turns to a collection of photographs of Korean women taken in the 1950s by American soldiers stationed in South Korea. Through a careful interplay of contemporary and ancient texts on vision and perception, staged performances, and archival imagery, Choi crafts works that are self-reflective, playful, and poetic. Her films probe the depths of the photographic image, excavating its layers and interrogating the hierarchies embedded within.
Justin Jinsoo Kim’s experimental animations draw on personal, official, and historical archives with patient, meditative attention. Employing techniques such as rephotography through inkjet printing, the blending of 2D and 3D imagery, and the incorporation of re-situated text, Kim opens the animated image into a vast and contemplative space. His work transforms archival material into a field of resonance, where memory and history remain in flux.