Nebula Rising

Nebula Rising

2008, South Korea, 35mm transferred to video, colour, sound, 8 min.

Expanded cinema artist Hangjun Lee and Balloon and Needle noise turntablist Chulki Hong create a brutal state of ruptured perceptions and frenzied cacophony. Though their work is intended as live celluloid and instrumentation interventions, the duo previously released the self-published DVD Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph, which shows some of their work transposed to a single channel presentation. Their work strips cinema back to its primal forces - projection beam, frames, colour, and reconfigures it into an abstract discharge, which the sound, played live from an ensemble of turntables and effects, mirrors in its harsh intent. Nebula Rising uses decayed and handmade 35mm film in duo with a blasting noise-track.