Experimental Animation
 
 
 
 
           
                                     
 
 
 
 
 
 
These experimental animations are based on animation aesthetics with interest in creating new concept of frame, unusual progress of frames, locomotion and an optical illusion caused by frame action. A series of works 'Moving Painting' are being executed with an issue for uniting animation with fine art and now new subjects on current works are to conceive unartificial frames, connect logical units illogically and introduce dynamic locomotion into inbetweening process, etc.

 

Symptom
G
Painting is film
Soul Trace
by Accident 1
by Accident 2
Latent Sorrow
Retina Hole
Blood Paint
Hemorrhage
 
Ceci n'est pas un reve
Hwa doo
The message from Ashtar
imagine
concave & convex
 

 

 

 

 

 

Symptom

Art & Sound by Shon Kim


Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2000
Running Time: 4 min
Format: 16mm | 1:1.33 | Color | Sound
Genre: Drawing Animation

Synopsis:

1 selves, 2 self

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

G

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2001
Running Time: 5 min 40 sec.
Format: 16mm | 1:1.33 | Color | Sound
Genre: Moving Painting

Synopsis:

Greed ball circulates

 

 

 

 

 

 

Painting is film

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2001
Running Time: 5 min 40 sec.
Format: Video | 4:3 | Color | Sound
Genre: Pixilation

Synopsis:

Capture multiple frames from a piece of painting through a magnifying glass and make a film with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soul Trace

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2002
Running Time:1 min 30 sec.
Format: 16mm | 1:1.33 | Color | Sound
Genre: Body Painting Animation

Synopsis:

Greed ball circulates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Accident 1 

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2002
Running Time:2 min 30 sec.
Format: 16mm | 1:1.33 | Color | Sound
Genre: Moving Painting

Synopsis:

Motivate liquid to move accidentally and then unexpected traces are drawn and animated intuitively. The experiment to seek for uncultivated animating and timing.

 

 

 

 

 

by Accident 2

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2003
Running Time: 5 min
Format: Video | 4:3 | Color | Sound
Genre: Moving Painting

Synopsis:

A young soldier gets injured seriously by accident and I witness by accident the moment he is dying. Motivate liquid to move by accident and then unexpected traces are drawn and animated intuitively. The experiment to seek for uncultivated animating and timing

 

 

 

 

 

Latent Sorrow

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2006
Running Time: 3 min 30 sec
Format: 16mm | 1:1.33 | Color | Sound
Genre: Moving Painting

Synopsis:

Moving Painting #7 to reach coexistent point where abstract and figure are equally fused.

 

 

 

 

 

Retina hole

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Date of Production: 2003
Running Time: 10 min
Format: Video | 4:3 | Color | No Sound
Genre: Live Action

Synopsis:

Light exists for Darkness

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blood Paint

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2005
Running Time: 6 min 40 sec.
Format: 16mm | 1:1.33 | Color | Sound
Genre: Moving Painting

Synopsis:

It abstractly describes the course of being persecuted and Jesus mental state in Jesus' point of view. It stares at western religion history in Korean artistic vision and focuses on Jesus as a human being, not the absolute being.

 

 

 

 

 

Hemorrhage

Art by Shon Kim

Sound by Araki (Spain)


Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2009
Running Time: 5 min 30 sec
Format: HD | 3:2 | Color | Sound
Genre: Pixilation
 
Synopsis:

Abstract locomotion of thesis-antithesis in order to evolve and their struggle for synthesis. This experiment is founded on Material Dialectic. ‘Power
 never bleeds, but history does.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ceci n’est pas un reve

(English Title: This is not a dream)

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2011
Running Time: 4 min 46 sec
Format: HD | 1152 x 720 | Color | Sound
Genre: Pixilation
 
Synopsis:

‘What is the virtuality?’

In the situation the boundary between the actuality and the virtuality is currently being collapsed, traditional essentialism focusing on actuality is experimentally reconstituted by reversal logic based on Rene Magritte’s surrealistic painting, <Ceci n'est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe)>.

All of the frames were caught frame-by-frame from printed matters through macro lens and animated by pixilation. Movements and rhythms were created by camera works.

The actuality and the virtuality reflect mutually in the form of decalcomania, and benday dots, the main texture of this film, from printed matters represent mass production and uniformity which got extreme nowdays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hwa doo (ü¥Ôé)

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Original Sound from John Cage & Sungkong Kim
and Remixed by Shon Kim
Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2012
Running Time: 5 min
Format: HD | 16:9 | Color | Sound
Genre: Fake Animation

Synopsis:

John Cage plays the violin and a Buddhist priest, Sungkong Kim, chants the Diamond Sutra with a wooden gong. In this discord, a red dot arises as a new question for meditation and wanders on the trace of kinetic strings. They all seem separate, but Eastern and Western spirits harmonize with each other at some point, as if scratch, rap and beat are remixed in the Electronic music.

 

 

 

 

 

The message from Ashtar

Art by Shon Kim

Sound by Ashtar

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2011
Running Time: 9 min 30 sec
Format: HD | 16:9 | Color | Sound
Genre: Text Animation
 
Synopsis:

“Be still now and listen, for your chance may not come again.”

A man who calls himself "Vrillon of the Ashtar" performs illegal broadcast during the height of an evening live news.

 

 

 

 

 

 

imagine

Art by Shon Kim

Music by John Lennon

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2011
Running Time: 3 min 2 sec
Format: HD | 16:9 | Color | Sound
Genre: Text Animation

Synopsis:

“Imagine all the people…”

 

 

 

concave & convex

Art & Sound by Shon Kim

Country of Production: USA / S. Korea
Year of Production: 2012
Running Time: Work in Progress
Format: HD | 16:9 | Color | Sound
Genre: Drawing Animation

Synopsis: Experiment for concave & convex

 

 

 

 

Experimental Aimation 17

 

 

Work in Progress