Colony

(HD video, sound, 22mins)
Films from the Motherlands series is a documentary based video exploring truths and histories of the diaspora through the women featured. Two films run on a loop. One focuses on a transformative relocation from Colombo, Sri Lanka to London, England and the other on navigating life with a mixed-race identity.

(HD video, sound, 29 mins)
Ellie Kyungran Heoʼs film features an island at the southern-most point of South Korea, which requires less than an hour to cover its terrain. On the island, there are two extremely contrasting atmospheres, crowded hoards and hours of emptiness. These emphasise its position geographically and psychologically as an island. In a filmic relationship, gazing at some residents on the island, the questions “Where are you now?”, “Why are you here?” and “What happened to you?” would be asked to the film’s subjects, audience, and the director-self.

(SD video, sound, 25mins)
Melancolony depicts the routine sadness of the colonial warrior as he protects convoys of goods coming in and out of the camp in Afghanistan. Using superimposed text, an un- named 17 year old soldier ‘voices’ his plan to fake medical discharge to escape the army and tells us about Price, 37, ‘his’ Sergeant, who, on his final tour of duty has the transferable skills fit for a new career in banking. Through this double narration Melancolony builds a picture of the emotional stoicism that sustains and reproduces the homesickness of the Depressive State and its militarised neo-colonial economy.