Documentary

Imagebakery received a request for Sey Artnet in March, 2007 to produce documentaries about Sanjung Suh Se-ok, a pivotal figure in Korean modern art. The request was not about partial motion graphic of the documentary. It was a rare request on the entire production process.

Artist Suh Do-ho was the director in charge, and S. Euna Yoo, the founder of Sey Artnet, supervised the production throughout the process. Imagebakery was in charge of the general directing and production of the documentaries and defining the role of graphic design.

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Human Suh Se-ok

Suh se-ok’s world of art is praised for reinterpreting the traditional ink paintings and it was very similar to the process of creating graphic design works. Our primary aim was to capture the everyday lives of the artist, the source of his work. The scenes were expressed so that the documentary can be seen as a single painting, just like his work.

Behind the Scenes : Suh se-ok documentary

“Human Suh Se-ok” were shown in Houston of the United States, Tokyo of Japan and Daejeon of Korea and are scheduled to be shown at all exhibitions of the artist in major cities around the world. “Human Suh Se-ok” project has not ended yet. As long as Sanjung produces, Imagebakery will continue to record the new parts of his life. Newer “Human Suh Se-ok” will be shown at future exhibitions.

Suh se-ok documentary in MFAH

Making of People

With Suh Do-ho, a world-renowned artist, Sanjung planned a large scale work with the theme his lifetime – “human.” The scale of the work is 4-meter-wide and 50-meter-long in total. On the transparent silk background, a group of hundreds of people in various forms was drawn.

It was an extraordinary experience to record the process of the father and son to face each other as artists. The primary object was to show the entire process of the art work creation and installation. In this documentary, we also focused more on stimulating communication between the viewers and the artwork and artists, because a documentary may force a unilateral view to the viewers.

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Exhibition

 
Suh se-ok exhibition in Maison Hermes, Ginza, Tokyo

Technical Notes

The general process of shooting and design production was carried out with HD (23.98 fps / 1080 p).

The video source from the 13 shooting sessions from March 2007 to February 2008 were about 12 hours in total, except for the HDV source. A significant size of storage space was required to store the raw data without compression, ready for editing at any time.

The “In / Out” process was conducted with the Apple ProRes codec, allowing us to create a product with quality that is comparable to the raw data.

Additional information about the exhibition can be found at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The copyright of the two documentaries mentioned above belong to Sanjung Suh Se-ok and his family. Please understand that we cannot provide the entire video clip.

 

Credits

 

Crew in Korea

 

Crew in Japan