Directing
Jooyeon Lee studies and audio-visually composes about social isolation, technological progress, body politics and labour through moving images, drawings, installations and writings.
Through the interview with Captain Heebok Ahn (Korean Air), the film reviews the current working condition and cosmic radiation exposure of the aircrews by comparing the case to a historical industrial accident of the 1920s: Radium Girls. The film suggests that there will always be victims of technological progress and labour complexity. Still, most victims on such occasions are often the most vulnerable people of late capitalism, in this case, women.
A micro-short that uses dance to explore mindfulness, conflicted intentions, and appearances. (SET Film Festival)
Filmed during lockdown, Back to Back is a performance film about care centred around a phone conversation between a cleaning agency employee and a woman trying to empty a locked fridge. When the two women meet-up they engage in a strange dance through the streets of Seoul, locked together back-to-back in a movement of mutual support and dependence.
A part-travelogue, part portrait film about a hoarder friend in Tokyo and handing him over a questionnaire diary to clean his room on his own.
Witch Wander Whistle is a landscape documentary about Tokyo preparing Summer Olympics of 2020, in the new Reiwa era. By delivering three monologues - a girl comparing the lifespan of robots and humans at the site of a radiological leak in Fukushima, the beginning and the end of Peter Hantke's novel 《Repetition》, and a letter to a friend left in Tokyo – this film depicts the ongoing construction of the New Olympic Stadium.
A fake documentary quoting 《A Little Princess》 (by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905) to depict young, precarious museum workers living in an unstable working environment. When the night comes, a woman who works at a nearby museum goes on a weasel hunt in Jungnang River to earn pocket money. Young, highly educated female workers who move between short-term contracts and part-time jobs may be the girls in ermine coats, but the film suggests that they are the ermines for a coat.