David Chung: Video Work at Rice University

David Chung’s new video work, ​“Crossing” (2014) is on view at the Rice University Art Gallery Cubicle.

“Crossing” mixes scenes of street life in two country’s capital cities: Seoul, South Korea and Pyongyang, North Korea. Free to record in Seoul, Chung’s film was confiscated in communist North Korea. Using a miniature camcorder, however, he secretly filmed pedestrians crossing the bridge over the Taedong River in Pyongyang. Captured on foot, bus, and subway and accompanied by the haunting composition, ​“Jupiter’s Moons,” Crossing evokes a feeling of collective rootlessness, of passing through places without arriving at a final destination.

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