495 Days

Animation

495 Days (2015)
Running Time: 4 mins
Direction, animation by Bum Lee
Video by Bum Lee and Camilla Jeon
Music: “Summer Solstice” by eeeho

We traveled around the world for 495 days. This short animation was inspired by the memories from our journey.

Recombination (2011)

Animation

Recombination (2011)
Running time: 3 mins
Direction, animation, sound by Bum Lee

The peaceful swimmers are thrust by giant extradimensional hands into a masticatory contest for survival. Having no teeth, they are forced to mutate and adapt, but success only leads to a more terrifying destination.

Shave (2007)

Animation

Shave (2007)
Running Time: 1 min 44 sec
Camera, animation, editing, sound by Bum Lee

Pixilation video created with iStopMotion and a Macbook Pro webcam, made for the 1st Disposable Film Festival in 2007.

Sports and Diversions (2006)

Animation

Sports and Diversions (2006)
Running Time: 4 min
Directed and animated by Bum Lee
Piano performed by Pei-wei Lin
Music recorded by Haseeb Qureshi and Eric Boulanger

Sports and Diversions is a series of black and white animations inspired by Sports et divertissements, a collection of piano compositions written by Erik Satie in 1914. These animations take the themes of Satie’s compositions as points of entry, and then leap into their own varied interpretations of the music.

The Fly (2005)

Animation

The Fly (2005)
Running time: 2 minutes
Direction, animation, editing, sound, concept by Bum Lee

“The fly thought it was a man. The man thought he was a fly.”

A 3D animation created with Maya, made at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.