FROM WHAT (통일T’ONGIL) I FORGOTTEN (2023)
Performer: Estefania Cho; Hair and Sound Production: Sev Croxie

The film begins in amnesia, one that belongs to my grandmother, father, and aunt who can only recall fragments of crossing the 38th parallel. I share this as a reminder that the images and narrative assembled in this form is a practice of searching for stories that are/were buried underneath the debris of colonial history...

Being able to share these fragments with you is another act of remembering...remembering not only the stories, but the forces that attempt to silence these voices. These stories remember the subjugated body under force,and the memories that refuse erasure.

This project documents the expression of my grieving ceremony of my grandmother right after her passing, the camera creating a space of a final greeting that could not be shared in our physical bodies.