live/leave (2024)

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Hey-Yeun Jang is a Korean born, New York based installation and film artist. She practices creating visual narratives using 16 mm, 35 mm, super 8 mm and 35 mm slide film. Her films have been screened at film venues: New York Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), Kabuki Theater (San Francisco, CA)., etc.   

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‘live/leave’ is an avant-garde documentary film. Amidst her domestic daily routine, a woman uses a mirror as a vehicle to reach beyond her space and time. The work expresses personal inner discovery of an equilibrium between living and leaving, appearing and disappearing, being and becoming. Originally shot on celluloid film, selective frames were transferred to 35mm slide film, which after being mounted was transferred back to the moving image. This process explores the distinction between still image and moving image and what happens in the space between.

2025 Final List, e-flux Film Awards, Brooklyn