2005  / 3 m 20 s / 16mm​​

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

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<Latent Sorrow> is an experimental animation that explores the materiality of the moving image through painting, frame-by-frame animation, and camera-based transformation. Beginning with hand-painted abstract images, the work repeatedly rephotographs a single surface by altering focus, exposure, and scale, allowing movement to emerge without conventional in-between animation. Each frame becomes a unique event rather than a calculated transition. Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's notion of the psychological power of color and the tradition of abstract cinema-from Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling to Stan Brakhage-the work examines the threshold where abstraction and representation continuously dissolve into one another. Abstract lines, stains, and chromatic fields gradually evoke traces of faces and bodies before returning to pure abstraction.

Rather than treating the film image as a transparent window onto reality, Latent Sorrow approaches the image as a material surface that is constantly transformed. The film surface becomes a site where painting, photography, and animation intersect, and where perception oscillates between color, gesture, movement, and figuration. Through this continual cycle of emergence and disappearance, the work reflects on the latent emotional resonance embedded within the instability of images.

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Made at CalArts, USA

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