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BEYOND SILENCE: My Way
single-channel video
running time: 12 min 40 sec
2008

As part of the series project Beyond Silence, My Way is a video work that captures life stories of an individual living and working in contemporary South Korea.  
It was made based on conversations with a man, Min-gew Kim, which happened through regular meetings with the artist. He was eventually asked to write about his experience of living in contemporary South Korean society as a married man and white collar worker, working for a big corporation, i.e. his typical working conditions and his private life pertaining to it. The result is a dynamic narrative of private--issues in domestic and work places, and public spheres of his life—his company’s system of security, promotion, and competition.
My Way is a metaphoric first person narrative of the struggles of a man in his domestic and work places, the Korean societal system, and surveillance and security. It was narrated from a first person viewpoint on the observations of the surroundings and the understanding of them.  Finally, My Way does reveal the conjunction where personal value systems are in conflict with the particular social systems and the embrace of them by an individual.

< Beyond Silence 시리즈_My way>은 한국사회에서 결혼한 한 직장 남성의 가정과 회사 그리고 한국사회 시스템에 대한 개인의 고민과 회사의 감시·보안시스템에 대한 내용을 1인칭 관찰자적 시선으로 개인의 삶을 도큐멘테이션한 작업이다.  
작업 과정은 한국사회의 대기업에 직장을 두고 살아가는 한 남성과 지속적인 만남을 통해, 이 남성의 개인사와 연관하여 한국사회의 여러 이야기를 연결하여 대화를 나눴다. 이 과정에서 남성은 한 가정의 가장으로서의 고민과 회사(회사 보안, 승진,경쟁시스템등)사이의 고민을 연결시켜 글을 쓰게 되었고, 작가는 이 글을 기반으로 촬영, 연출하여 작품을 완성시켰다.

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