Exploring Alternative Storytelling Through Experimental Animation
Unforgotten
Animated Short, 2021
8 min
Unforgotten is a 3D animation inspired by the Korean ‘Comfort Women’ issue who suffered from forced sexual slavery in Comfort Stations by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. It tells atrocious wartime sexual violence through fairy-like visuals, which are metaphorical and poetic, so as not to perpetuate violent imagery and re-traumatize victims.
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Screenings
2022 Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2022 SIGGRAPH Asia, Daegu, South Korea
2022 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Barcelona, Spain
2022 Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2022 17th Ammerman Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology Symposium, New London, CT, USA
2022 Shenzhen International Film Festival, Shenzhen, China
2022 Love and Hope International Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2022 City of Angels Women's Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, USA
2022 Morocco Shorts International Film Festival, Rabat, Morocco
2022 New Jersey International Film Festival, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
2022 Grand River Film Festival, Waterloo, Canada
2022 64th Rochester International Film Festival, Rochester, NY, USA
2022 RiverRun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2022 Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ, USA
2022 69th Year Columbus International Film and Animation Festival, Columbus, OH, USA
2022 Amelia Island Film Festival, Fernandina Beach, FL, USA
2022 International Alexandria Short Film Festival, Alexandria, Egypt
2021 48th Student Academy Awards, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 REDCAT Showcase 2021, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
Honors
2022 Best Animation Director, Shenzhen International Film Festival, Shenzhen, China
2022 Best of the Fest, 64th Rochester International Film Festival, Rochester, NY, USA
2022 Best Experimental, City of Angeles Women’s Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Best Animation, Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Animaze Animation Awards Nominee, Animaze Montreal International Animation Film Festival Montreal, Canada
2021 GOLD Medal, Animation, 48th Student Academy Awards, Academy-Award Qualifying, Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, USA
