00:00I
00:23found this continuous struggle for freedom over generations to be very inspiring.
00:33To work with the North Korean animators is to willingly subject the process to a series
00:39of restrictions. So to this day, I have no idea at all who the animators are and how
00:46many of them worked on the project. But I made a decision to try to convert all the
00:52restrictions and limitations into parameters that can generate the final form of the work.
01:03To keep the project going, I proposed to them the freedom to eliminate all the backgrounds,
01:10to remove all markers of specific locations. I proposed that all the clothing from the
01:17original sources be altered and that all the faces of the subjects be masked. I also
01:24gave them an almost entirely free hand to design the costumes and the mask. In the end,
01:32seemed to refer not only to Korea, but to an imaginary Asia as a whole.
01:41I understand the work to be totally a product of the imagination of Koreans from both the North and the South.
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