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BURIAL OF THIS ORDER, 2022
Single channel film. 4K. Color. Duration: 25:30 min. 5.1 surround sound / stereo sound.
Sometimes exhibited with A World Stolen in the Depths of Time, 2022 (4 bamboo poles with textile banners, each 163x35cm mounted onto bamboo poles.
A group of people are seen walking in a funeral procession. Ranging from musicians, artists and poets to anti-miliary activists, environmentalists and diasporic, queer and trans people, they have set out to undo a world order built upon hierarchy and division by performing a burial. Together they carry a coffin through a tourist resort on Jeju Island in South Korea that has been left abandoned since the financial crisis in the 1990s. It soon becomes clear that this is no traditional Confucian funeral. Age and gender roles are subverted, the coffin is draped in dark camouflage colours and the traditional portrait of the deceased is replaced by a black mirror.
In the field between funeral ritual, political protest and carnival performance, the people in the procession march through the ruins of capitalist modernity. Time and place begin to lose their stability as mythical Dokkaebi deities pass through the building and heavy rain and wind blow through its cavities. As if possessed, the group in a moment of revolutionary fervour, overthrows and dismantles the scaffolding of the prevailing order and other stories begin to take form.
Exhibition view: Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World), October 23–December 30, 2022, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, exhibition view, photo: Studio Bowie / HKW
Burial of this Order - Trailer
Directed by: Jane Jin Kaisen / Produced by: Incisions / Line Producer: Soyoung Kwon / Script: Jane Jin Kaisen, Anselm Franke / Director of Photography: Daniel Zox / Gimbal Photography: Guston Sondin-Kung / Art Director: Abhijan Toto / Edited by: Jane Jin Kaisen / Composer & Sound mix: Udo Lee / Featuring: "4 + 3 = 1 RadioBook 5" recorded and produced by bela / Performers: Black Mirror Bearer: bela / Mourners: d. yaejin bang, Boram Hong, Okgwa, Mijounga, Jina Bak, bandi / Casket Bearers: Gyeol Ko, Dan Kim, Jeanjacques, Seorim Kim, Soyoon, e-sang, James Gui, Sookie Kwak / Drummer: Oksusu / Negation Chanter: Choi Sung-hee / DoKaebi Gods: Holly Yu, Jiyoung Wi, Jeijin Kim, Sungeun Lee / Banner Bearers: Maja Lee Langvad, Sollee Kim, Jungle, Daeyoung Ko / Assistant Director: Grace Sungeun Kim / Story Visualization: Daniel Zox / Conceptual Consultancy: Anselm Franke / Assistant Camera: Hyeongyong Kim / Assistant Producer: Kahee Jeong / Translation of Script: Jungweon Mok / Colorist: Edoardo Rebecchi / Behind the Scenes Photography: Theo Bu Sondin-Kaisen / Carpenters: Seokhee Han, Sungwon Cho / Props Assistants: Jeijin Kim, Sungeun Lee / Graphics: Jung, Jonas Handskemager / Runners: Nata, Kyungho Woo, Sangdo Woo, Yaeem Woo, Yaelin Woo / Bus Driver: Donghoon Han / With special thanks: Hyekyoung Ahn, Soonshil Suh, Youngmee Song, Maro, Nanda, Illboo Gang, Changwoo Kim, Heesuk Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Kyunghee Sung, Soosan, Seongnae Kim, Minsook Kim, Jonghyo Won, Dongjin Jang, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Pujita Guha, The International Center for Knowledge in the Arts, Jeju Contents Agency, Borisol Pension, Holz Aewol / With support from: The Danish Artistic Research Funding Programme, Ministry of Culture / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / The Danish Arts Foundation