A collaboration between artists, Young Joon Kwak and Christopher Richmond, Slow Dance (2013) presents the viewer with a meditation on the material relationship between queer bodies and classical modern representation of western domestic space. Alternating between static, clearly defined but austere images and frenetic video-cassette images that appear warm and intimate, Kwak drifts through a home that is both familiar and completely exotic. The interplay between these contrasting views creates a visual duality that accentuates the presence of the camera which is like a phantom just outside the room. She lies in bed. She explores the closet. She stares into the lens and offers the camera tea. Here, paradoxical attachments to spaces and rituals that are commonly thought to be ordinary reveal an inherent queerness. They are at once comfortable and ill-fitting. Unique and pre-inscribed with identification. Loving and antagonistic. Spanning 3 channels, the action progresses in a familiar way until the loop repeats and the viewer realizes that the individual video channels are not synchronized. They are not fixed. Instead, they continuously re-arrange themselves to create new visual relationships that are always changing and are never the same.

Directed and Conceived by Young Joon Kwak and Christopher Richmond

Starring: Young Joon Kwak

Cinematography: Christopher Richmond

Editors: Young Joon Kwak, Christopher Richmond

Music: Marvins Astorga

Sound Design and Re-recording Mixer: Marvin Astorga

Sound: Marvin Astorga, Christopher Richmond, Nature audio provided by Quiet Planet

Special Thanks: Donnie Cervantes, Fran Johnson