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Permutations is a short film that Theresa Hak Kyung Cha made early in her career. The film features a series of headshots of Cha’s sister Bernadette from different angles, with one frame of Cha herself subtly spliced in.
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Permutations Term Timeline in Minor Feelings
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Portrait of an Artist
...Cha’s early videos, she translates from French in her “ethereal and serene” voice; another, entitled Permutations, shows different images of her sister Bernadette’s face, wearing a neutral expression that could mean...
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Most supposed images of Cha online are actually pictures of her sister Bernadette, from Permutations. Of course, Asian women are often mistaken for one another. Cha even wrote a poem...
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...and his siblings. Cha is frowning and wearing an ugly, boxy haircut. Years later, in Permutations, Cha would add one frame of her own portrait into the video of her sister...
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