Video

Trying to Keep Concentrate

Ruthann Lee

2004, 07:30 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 864.01

Featuring footage from an in-store surveillance camera and interviews with the video-maker's father (an owner of a convenience store in downtown Toronto), the short documentary presents personal and systematic views of Korean immigrant experiences in Canada.

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Critical Writing

Captured and Controlled: Critiquing Surveillance through The Camera
by Sarah E. K. Smith. Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control, 2010. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2010.