Lizardians
Young Joo Lee
“The lives of a young woman and a young man are intertwined and forever changed by their work at a regenerative human limb corporation.
The setting of Lizardians is in the near future when cell- regeneration technology is used to produce human body parts for sale. A corporation employs individuals to grow their limbs for living, similar to how a (axolotl) lizard regenerates its limb after an amputation. The film shows the parallel lives of two people working in two different production stages in the limb regeneration factory; the body part production unit and the body part disposal facility. “ — Young Joo Lee for the Film Study Center at Harvard University.
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Lizardians has been selected for screening at the GLAS animation festival, & the Athens International Film & Video Festival this month. For more information, please visit Young Joo online.
Young Joo Lee is a multimedia artist from South Korea, currently living & working in Cambridge, MA & Los Angeles. Young holds an MFA in Sculpture at Yale University, & an MFA in Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule Frankfurt. She's currently a Visiting Lecturer in Animation & Immersive Media Art in the Department of Art, Film & Visual Studies at Harvard University. Previously, she was a College Fellow in Media Practice at Harvard University, a Fulbright Scholar in Film & Digital Media, & a recipient of DAAD artist scholarship. Her work has been exhibited globally.