A Motionless Movie

Overview

A Motionless Movie imagines the perspective of Korean women reading the domestic/women’s pages of newspapers carrying Hollywood news in the 1920s and ’30s, and loosely traces Clara Bow’s trajectory across these pages. Her constant presence under descriptors such as “the quintessential Modern Girl” or “the typical flapper,” followed by her sudden disappearance after marriage and childbirth, prompts reflection not only on her movement within film but also on what it means to be free in front of the camera and in the gaze of the press.