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Mouth to Mouth

Mouth to Mouth

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Coréia do Sul, Estados Unidos

1975

Videoarte

Curta-Metragem

English and Korean words appear on the screen, a mouth forms the shape of an "O," then opens and closes. Is this the beginning of language? In this early videotape, Cha isolates and repeats a simple, physical act — a mouth forming the eight Korean vowel graphemes — so that this ordinary action becomes something primal and riveting.

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Seleção Oficial

9° Festival ECRÃ

Data e Hora

MAM

Cinemateca do MAM

27/07/2025

14h

Duração (min.)

8

Estreia

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Classificação Indicativa

L / Free for all audiences / Livre Para Todos Os Públicos

Conteúdos

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

From the mid-1970s until her death at age 31 in 1982, Korean-born artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a rich body of conceptual art that explored displacement and loss. Informed by French psychoanalytic film theory, her video works use performance and text to explore interactions of language, meaning and memory. Cha's posthumously published book Dictée is an influential investigation of identity in the context of history, ethnicity and gender.

1975, 8 min, b&w, sound

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