Jesse Chun

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O dust 
2023
7 mins 27 seconds, with sound, Korean, English, French, single-channel; three-channel for installation 


O dust uncovers intimate reflections on language, heritage, and the intangible​ through decentering the found Eurocentric translation and historiography of cultural inheritance. Filmed at the Intangible Heritage archives and conference rooms of UNESCO headquarters in Paris, FR - where the world's heritages are institutionalized through English and French only - the film speaks through layers of linguistic and visual ruptures that evade such narrative. The non-linear film oscillates between an abstract letter to Chun’s late grandmother, an imaginary multilingual folklore, and moving image poetry. O dust summons the untranslatable to meditate on inherited lyrics​ and their afterlife​ -- on what continues to get carried across tongues, place​, and time.