Amid the rise of at-home and handheld-device streaming, closed captions are having a second. However, because the US-born, Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim explores within the quick movie [Closer Captions], the descriptions they provide are not often as much as snuff, particularly for Deaf individuals like her who depend on them. A playful dive right into a type of communication that many not often give a second thought to, on this quick Kim explains why we shouldn’t accept ‘[music]’ after we may have ‘[mournful violin music that sounds like crying alone in an empty bar]’. She then presents a brief movie through which she makes use of captions to attract out poetry from life’s small moments, describing, as an illustration, a bathe as ‘the sound of shampoo scent floating among the many fog’. The result’s each a pointy commentary on the know-how and an evocative glimpse into Kim’s distinctive perspective on sound, phrases and life.
