Campus Mood: A Girl Filming Herself With a DV Camera on a Broadcast Room Floor

Back in the present, a boy sits alone in the empty broadcast room holding a mini-DV camera with the screen flipped toward himself, his thumb just pressing REC, a small red light in his eye and old tape cases on the desk. The set's closing image. Image 8 of Zhao Yifan's set.

Mini-DV quality in an empty Korean school gym, a girl pauses with a basketball and turns to the camera, smiling as if she has waited a long time for someone, with fluorescent light on the waxed floor and empty stands. A long-awaited smile adds a hint of relationship to a solo still. Image 6 of Zhao Yifan's set.

In the same corridor a girl stops and turns to look straight into the lens, not startled, with a knowing calm and a trace of a smile, her outline burned into a silhouette by backlit windows. Shows how one frozen direct gaze can create an eerie but restrained sense of recognition. Image 3 of Zhao Yifan's set.