YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES – A Korean/American art duo living in Korea.
Using flash, they animate various texts, varying from light to philosophical and intellectual, and use music as a soundtrack. The texts are in many different languages including, english, french, korean, chinese, portuguese, german and many more. They use the same lettertypes, most animations are just in black and white. The rythym of the animation, and how it matches the soundtrack make for a compelling reading/watching and listening experience.

Secondly I’ll show Beautiful World a typo-film made in 2006 by Dutch graphic designer Mieke Gerritzen.

Beautiful World is a film to read or typography to look at. It contains texts only: quotes by well-known and less well-known thinkers who shaping an image of the world. This film is about globalization and seeks to show that the world is being dumbed down because practically everything has become linked to economic interests.

A film about a visual language of signs, codes and trends with the goal of deploying products, visions, statements, politics, subcultures and everything possible in the name of visible economic growth. Text and language are taken apart and the film becomes a visual machine for the meaning, manipulation and seduction of the word.

Recognition is the most succesful product of today. Beautiful World is a film about visual culture in which form and content are no longer presented separately and the boundaries of entertainment and high culture are unclear.