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I Was There (2021–2024) is a trilogy of experimental documentary films that explores the complexities of radiation poisoning, our society's fading collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the unresolved debate between ethics and science.
I WAS THERE, PART I (2023)
A meditation on survivors’ memories, "I Was There" traces the experience of a physician for the past 70 years including his personal account of the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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I WAS THERE, PART II (2024)
Newly uncovered 16mm footage from the US Army archives documenting the barren bombed landscape of Hiroshima raise questions of war tactics for the human race.
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I WAS THERE, PART III (2021)
"I Was There, Part III" reexamines J. Robert Oppenheimer's speech at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1958. The illusion of the constant, never-ending questions between ethics and sciences highlights the incompleteness of human consciousness.
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Yin’s films distributed by Video Data Bank
VANISH, 4 mins
1984–1989–2014, 4 minutes
Pretend Nothing Happened, 11 min, double split-screen
Hannah and the Crystal Ball, 3 minutes, super-8 film
Dark River, 6 minutes
Lighthouse, 16 minutes
For the Unseen, 12 minutes
Glass House, 9 minutes
Icon, 4 minutes
Untitled Affair, 7 minutes
Another Clapping, 25 minutes
Films purchased and archived by institutions
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
The University of Nagoya, Film Library, Japan
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
The University of Nevada, Reno
Film Art Foundation, San Francisco
Seoul City International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
Film Art Foundation, San Francisco
Videotage, Hong Kong
Video Data Bank, The School of Art Institute of Chicago