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.
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Migrant World Film Festival 2011 Leader Animation
Running time: 25 sec
Direction, animation, music by Bum Lee
Leader animation made for the 2011 Migrant World Film Festival in South Korea.
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East Asia Migrant and Coexistence Festival 2010 Leader Animation
Running time: 30 sec
Direction, animation, music by Bum Lee
Leader animation made for the 2010 East Asia Migrant and Coexistence Festival in Japan.
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Migrant Worker Film Festival 2010 Leader Animation
Running time: 25 sec
Direction, animation, music by Bum Lee
Leader animation made for the 2010 Migrant Worker Film Festival in South Korea.
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Migrant Worker Film Festival 2009 Leader Animation
Running time: 30 sec
Direction, animation, music by Bum Lee
Leader animation made for the 2009 Migrant Worker Film Festival in South Korea.
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Migrant Worker Film Festival 2008 Leader Animation
Running time: 30 sec
Direction, animation, music by Bum Lee
Leader animation made for the 2008 Migrant Worker Film Festival in South Korea.
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Migrant Worker Film Festival 2007 Leader Animation
Running time: 30 sec
Direction, animation, music by Bum Lee
Leader animation made for the 2007 Migrant Worker Film Festival in South Korea.
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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.
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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.
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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.