04/15/2026
EIC special program spotlight:
Survey of the Cave: Select films from the EXiS Festival, curated by Inhan Cho
Sunday, April 19 at 2:45 - 4:15 pm at the
“Cinema is both a medium that records time and one that creates it. The linear and irreversible. Yet cinema merely creates an illusion of continuous movement; in reality, it is a composition of discontinuous units. The four films in this program focus precisely on what lies 'in between' - between frames, between images, between past and present. There, the linear progression of cinematic time is dismantled, giving rise to new temporal forms: reversal, doubling, circulation, and layering. Heehyun Choi, Jaekyu Byun, HeeSue Kwon, and Ji-hwan Kim each question the forward flow of time in their own distinct ways. A world transformed into negative, forward-moving time encountering backward-moving time, images rotating through cycles of forgetting and return, memories that scatter when pursued. Through reversal, inversion, and recursion, they present the multiplicity of time, decomposing the cinematic time believed to flow only forward and recombining its discontinuous units - frames, photographs, layers - to construct new temporal experiences. In this process, the materiality of the medium becomes decisive. Rather than traditional editing, corporeal and physical acts become methodologies for constructing time. This program explores the fundamental question: cinema does not represent time but generates time itself.”
Film stills:
🎞 “Our Cave (우리의 동굴)” by Heehyun Choi
🎞 “Photographic Survey (사진측량)” by Jaekyu Byun
🎞 “Snowy Train (눈 내리는 기차)” by Ji-hwan Kim
All programs screen at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. $10 for a full day pass.
Full program details at experimentsincinema.org
