Fortune Teller (2022)

Fortune Teller, single-channel video, 24’ 50”, 2022

Fortune Teller is a research film about the recent case of cosmic radiation exposure by South Korean aircrews. Through the interview with Captain Heebok Ahn (Korean Air), the film reviews the current working condition of the aircrews by comparing the case to a historical industrial accident of the 1920s—Radium Girls. Fortune Teller suggests that there will always be inevitable victims of technological progress and labour complexity. Still, most victims on such occasions are often the most vulnerable people of late capitalism—in this case, women.

Directed and edited by

Jooyeon Lee

Cinematography by

Sun Park

Blake Hart-Wilson

Cast

Jooyeon Lee

Julie Dusuel

Production assistant

Talia Falcon Nizarane

Music by

Jooyeon Lee

Narrated by

Heebok Ahn (Korean Air)

Seoul coordinator

Kyungjin Kim

Recorded by

Southpole Studio, Seoul

Royal College of Art, London

Thanks to

Moving Image, Royal College of Art

Patricia Paterson

Ollie Dook

Louis Eaton

Jiwan Yu

Written judgment from

Depostion of Radium Girls Trial, New Jersey, Mar 1928 (National Archives, USA)

Testimonies by

Katherine Schaub

Catherine Donohue

Mae Cubberley

(Clark, Claudia. Radium Girls, Woemn and Industrial Health Reform: 1910-1935. The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, Sourcebooks, 2018.)