Jooyeon Lee

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Jooyeon Lee

Seungmin Chu, Un Lee

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.

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Jooyeon Lee

Back to Back is a performance film about an era when everyone needs care or becomes a person who performs care. This film started with recognising the limit of understanding each other's life. Someone starts walking on the streets at night, talking on a phone with a special cleaning company employee. The employee answers the call while working in the middle of the night. The two talk about a broken refrigerator that can't be opened, while jumping through the night streets with their back to back. No matter how much we look at the light that spreads through the window, we cannot fully understand the lives of those who live in it. The relationship between the two raises the question of how we understand others to the audience.