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“People live together, parents and children, husband and wife, but don’t know that communication is only an illusion, that in the last analysis each of us is locked up in his own secret?” wrote Argentine author Adolfo Bioy Casares in his short story Carta Sobre Emilia Emilia is nothing but an image of ‘pathosformel’. What we understand from images of passions that express anxiety in uncertainty, depression, sadness, mourning, bitterness, or great joy and passion, resistance and indolence might be a state of "weak decadence in hope of optimism" and a new form of cognition, “the tragic cognition of being”. One afternoon, a third person narrator and fictional character, Emilia, happens upon a second-hand bookshop and there, she finds an old and discolored book of poems written by René Laurids Brigge that includes short notes about the death of 19-year-old Wera Ouckama-Knoop, who was a female dance performer. Then, she decides to rewrite the notes and short sketches about W.O. Knoop, and her collected documents remembering someone’s death. This quadriptych style which is a four-chapter work of film shows a certain fold of pathosformel, polyvalent forces in which she recognizes the short sketches on her notes as "a non-real time and a heterogeneous space", and gets a feeling all of memories which come to a vague ‘future historical landscape”, like a flash of light at a moment of danger.

Rhee Hun is a filmmaker and researcher working on artist film and moving images. Working as a board member of Asian Artist Moving Image Platform(AAMP), his activities focus on artistic and curatorial practices across ranges of artist film and archive research with asking questions of ‘the future of landscape and moving image’ based on the archeological space and speculative narrative, language and allegorical epistemology. His film and video works have been shown in exhibitions and screenings at Far From Here in SeMA Storage (2019), International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Labs Program(2019), Collective research in MMCA Changdong residency program(2016), ACC Network platform: Asia-Kula, Kula Ring(2016), Arkipel(2015) and Rough Cut Night-Stop Motion(Expanded Cinema, Arts Council Korea Arts Theatre, 2014).