Anne Frank's House Temporarily Reconstructed
In progress:
4:3, color, sound, hi8, 13 min, 2010
Land of Mourning Calm is an epistolary video essay that charts a long distance correspondence between two women—one American, the other South Korean. It is a work of experimental ethnography, which uses personal memory as a mode of exploring female intimacy, self-discovery, and issues of cross-cultural translation. Land of Mourning Calm usurps traditional ethnographic expectations of landscape as a mode of coming to know a place or culture, instead activating landscape on a semiotic level where place is transformed into a mood that shifts fluidly over time.