Congratulations to Minhae Shim on her recent graduation from UMass Boston! Minhae has been working with us for two and a half years, doing everything from web design to assistant editing, copyediting, production assistance, and graphic design. And I'm very pleased that she is staying on at Julie Mallozzi Productions as Associate Producer.
Pictured above is Minhae's very cool installation Video Sasson, which she describes as "a phantasmagorical meditation on media, remediation, and the editing process. Discarded strips of videotape are repurposed to create a screen through which a digital video is projected. In the video, newly severed pieces of hair float across the screen to the tune of a familiar funeral ballad that has been rendered unrecognizable by the editing process. The work uses the inescapably human material of hair to comment on the omnipresence of media and its evolution, and to connect video editing to a familiar, tactile experience." I saw the piece at the Nowhere/No Here show at the Harbor Art Gallery in January, and loved its very concrete yet ethereal presence. Minhae's film Color Theory (co-directed with Danny Roth) won the 2013 Short Waves competition and will screen at the Boston Asian American Film Festival in October. In addition to her production work, Minhae is an active writer (see her recent piece in the Independent or her blog).
It's great to work with people you admire!