4 Seasons of Redthread Vision
2024 | 10m | AI Short Film | World Premiere
4 Seasons of Redthread Vision is a visual poetry shaped through human and AI collaboration, unfolding across the cycles of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Inspired by an ancient Asian belief that invisible red threads bind those destined to meet, the film moves through natural landscapes where red appears as part of the world itself, suggesting connections sensed before they are named.
Emerging from the artist’s long-standing Redthread installation practice, the film expands a single, intimate idea of connection into a vast, unseen human network. Leaving meaning open, it invites viewers to place themselves within the image and reflect on relationships, memory, and the quiet forces that shape our lives. Both ancient and futuristic, the film offers an immersive experience that lingers beyond the screen.
Summary
June Kim is a visual storyteller and filmmaker who builds immersive worlds through installation, moving image, and artificial intelligence. Her long-term Redthread practice explores invisible human connections through site-specific installations and AI-driven visual storytelling. Drawing from an ancient Asian belief in an unseen red thread that binds destined encounters, Kim collaborates with machine-trained intelligence to expand physical artworks into cinematic experiences.
Her AI art film, 4 Seasons of Redthread Vision, was first presented at Frieze Seoul 2023. The work was later introduced in 2023 at the Saatchi Gallery, London, as part of The Oulim exhibition, presented with support from the Korean Ministry of Culture, marking an early and pioneering presentation of AI art and film by a Korean artist. In 2025, the film was invited to Le Musée des Arts et Métiers as part of the Paris AI Action Summit, with support from Meta and Microsoft France, where Kim was featured as the first Korean American artist, and was also presented at the Arizona Contemporary Art Museum in the United States. Kim is an Asian American filmmaker currently working between Los Angeles and Seoul, and serves as director of 528 Lab, an AI storytelling and spatial media studio.