David Yun

Bio

David Yun is a second year MFA student studying film at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). He grew up in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that holds the title as “The Whitest Large City in the United States.” Yun's work spans a variety of mediums including film/video, photography, and installation. His work can be viewed by going to www.davidmyun.com.

Statement

The Pain with Being Thirsty is a film that juxtaposes found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by a Muslim prisoner accused of running Al-Qaeda websites and awaiting extradition to Guantanamo Bay. In linking the two, the film traces a connection between the way Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how Arabs and Arab Americans are being treated in a post-9/11 world while raising larger questions about the fragility of our own freedoms.