Screened at the Asian Film and Video Art Forum: The Twilight of Image Consumption's Era at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul.  

In collaboration with D Jay Endona 

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We developed our ideas about Kapital together after sharing experiences in a system that continuously undervalues our labor and passion in the creative field. Even from our earliest experiences in the industry, the idea of kapital was already being ingrained in our minds and enforced in our livelihoods. The nature of our field created a mentality that focused on survival and competition, which made us feel small and powerless. We were tied to the notion that our identities are based on ideas that are deemed “successful” and “important.” Hence, we felt alienated from our very own work.

 

We tried to capture the feeling of disposability and vulnerability through the footage we shot and selected. There is a sense of being watched by something or someone as we captured people from above, positioning them in a manner that evoked a feeling of facelessness that we associated with our experiences. Our subjects are strangers: unrecognizable, with no form of identity or emotional value. We grounded these clips on our insights on power dynamics in the hopes that the viewer can assume a position of seeing from above and being seen from below.