Campus Mood: A Boy Pressing REC in the Broadcast Room

In a small campus broadcast room a girl sits on the floor holding a mini-DV camera and talking to the lens, warm desk lamp light from the side, old audio gear behind her, grain and slight oversaturation like a message recorded for someone in the future. A talk-to-camera setup adds suspense. Image 4 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.