Animating Beyond the Horizon with Jeuno JE Kim and Sam Message

In this episode of SAQMI Play we’re diving into the world of animation, satire and world building that bridges between the animated and physical realms. Together we’re going to explore animation and its power to bring new worlds that lie long beyond our horizons to life.

The following conversation with Jeuno JE Kim and Sam Message followed our 14th edition of Nightfall – Queer Talks & Screenings – Animating Beyond the Horizon.

Here we asked: What does it mean when we reach into the utopian, the dystopian, beyond the real and the actual? 

The screening took place in Saqmis headquarter Frigga in Gothenburg March 20, 2024 and featured an assortment of enticing films which tickled our animation fantasies.

First out was Twosome by Mette Hansen, followed by 902 by Ville Hulling, LAMINA by Kría Rán “Bibi” Söring, Who is Gunnar? En könslig historia by Tilda Lovell, Benjamin’s flowers by Malin Erixon  and last but not least Whaled Women by Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn.

Like i said, this conversation was part of our series Nightfall. Nightfall is a night of queer talks and screenings. Inviting artists to share and talk about their work and their process. Nightfall is both a showcase for finished work and a queer peer review for work in progress.

This edition of Nightfall was curated by Kolbrún Inga Söring and Sam Message in collaboration with Anna Linder.

So lets get stuck in with Jeuno and dig into their project Krabstadt and the processes behind it. Krabstadt is a fictional arctic borderland where nordic countries send unwanted people created by Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn.

Visit Krabstadt here.
On this page you can see trailers, meet the characters, play a game, make a city tour and more…

Jeuno Kim is a visual artist with a background in religion and feminist theology. She holds a MA from Harvard University and MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago. From 2007-2009 she worked in the Critical Studies Program at the Malmö Art Academy while exhibiting in the US, Europe,and Asia, as for example solo shows at Overgaden Center for Contemporary ArtCopenhagen and Art Sonje Center in Seoul. She has been working together with Ewa Einhorn, developing a feminist animation project Krabstadt. 

Kim is currently a BFA study leader and prorector at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and previously been a professor at the Funen Art Academy, and Senior Lecturer at the Fine Art and Craft department at HDK-Valand

Filmography Jeuno JE KIM 
2015 – Sex & Taxes, 8 min
2013 – Whaled Women, 8 min
2010 – NSA/UNN, video installation, director
(with Ewa Einhorn) 
2009 – The Collectors, short fiction, director, composer 
2007 – The Janitor, short fiction, director , composer 

Filmography, Ewa EINHORN 
2017 – Tribunal-Spots, 2:50 min
2015 – Sex & Taxes, 8 min 
2013 – Whaled Women, 8 min, director (with Jeuno JE Kim)
2010 – NSA/UNN, video installation, director
(with Jeuno JE Kim) 
2008 – Atlas, short animation, director, animator 
2007 – Milkbar, feature documentary, director
(with Terese Mörnvik) 
2006 – Towards, short animation, director, animator
(with Misha Stroj)  
2003 – Warszaw.Street.02, short documentary, director
(with Terese Mörnvik)
2000 – Microsort, short animation, director, animatior
(with Misha Stroj)

Ewa Einhorn  is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary film. Einhorn received her BA from Vienna Art Academy, MA from Malmö Art Academy and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in NY. She is currently based in Malmö and Berlin. Einhorn has worked with animation since 2000, and her works have been screened at a.o Berlinale Shorts, Nordic Panorama, Busan Biennale, Torino Film Lab among others  She has taught as visiting lecturer in universities in Denmark, Germany and Sweden, and is currently teaching in the Fine Art and Crafts department at HDK-Valand.

Credits SAQMI Play:
Producer: Anna Linder
Design and code: Vincent Orback
Composer: Amanda Lindgren
Recorded, edited and mixed by Matilda Friman
Host: Sam Message
Original: Nightfall #14, at SAQMI space Frigga, Gothenburg.
Publisher: Anna Linder

SAQMI Play is produced with support from City of Gothenburg.