albus

Youjin Moon / United States / 2026 / World Premiere / 8 min.

synopsis

How whiteness grows: “Albus” is Latin for white. A close study of subtle shifts in structures of ice – forming floes, frost crusts and clusters of foam – springs forth on the verge of abstraction, as do the hushed murmurings and rustlings that reveal the sounds of ice.

“Icy surfaces drift into shifting textures, forming a subtle rhythm that transforms silent natural movement into a painterly composition.” — Youjin Moon

biography

Youjin Moon (1985) is a South Korean visual artist based in Boston, where she is an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She studied Oriental painting at Hongik University in Seoul and film and video art at MassArt in Boston. Her work moves between painting, film and light installation, between the internal and the external, the fluid and the solid, the natural and the artificial. The Ji.hlava IDFF has screened her films Arcalis (2022), Ganymede (2016) and Callisto (2014).