Chaya Chobi is a short film screening platform founded by Avita Maheen in 2022. The platforms focus is on short films in experimental and contemporary nature under the backdrop of ambient cinema. Chaya Chobi has previously been presented in underground locations across the Netherlands as well as at Whitechapel Gallery in the UK.
Chaya Chobi x WORM on 21.05.25 will present the works of Pedro Gossler and Yelim Ki, Brazilian and South Korean filmmakers based in The Netherlands. This program brings together two films that explore the fragmentation of identity and narrative in a world shaped by failing technologies and speculative truths. Princess follows a character’s struggle to reconstruct memory in a disintegrating digital landscape, where the self dissolves through synthetic voices and obsolete machines. In Fanfictional Politics, fact and fiction blur as conspiracy theories, internet culture, and political mythologies collide to expose how power is constructed and distorted. Together, the films reveal a world where both personal and political realities are unstable, mediated, and absurdly entangled.
The program concludes with an artist talk following the film screenings.
Fanfictional Politics
Directed by Pedro Gossler
2022, Netherlands, 30mins, English and Russian w/ English subtitles
Fanfictional Politics by Pedro Gossler utilizes online conspiracy theories and objective facts to show how political narratives are constructed and manipulated out of opinions, ambitions, opportunities, delusions, memories, and a few certitudes. Against a backdrop of all-consuming media mistrust, the very concepts of good and evil, right and left, human and inhuman, have lost meaning. In this metaphysical wasteland we wonder at the grim absurdity of what is presented as fact. Find out about Steve Bannon’s World of Warcraft sweatshop operation and how it contributed to Donald Trump’s presidency win. Think about the symbolic and literal significance of the table in political power struggles––and how it can all be connected to Vladislav Surkov, Putin’s personal advisor until February 2020. What if it’s the fans who know what’s really going on, better than the haters and
those who don’t really care?
About the artist
Pedro Gossler is an interdisciplinary Brazilian artist based in The Netherlands applying photography, video and animation to research the use of memory and archive in post-internet times. His work has been presented at the International Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and recently won the prizes for best documentary at Sheffield Int Doc Fest and Most Innovative film at Visions du Réel. Pedro’s work has been published by platforms such as DIS and Do Not Research and commissioned by Rupert, Lithuania.
Princess
by Yelim Ki
2024, South Korea, Georgia, Netherlands, 26mins, English w/ English and Korean subtitles
In a disintegrating landscape of immortal life, "Princess" follows the main character, Xana. As he struggles to recall his memory in order. An old tape machine becomes both a tool and an obsolete artifact, capturing the protagonist’s collapsing sense of self. Synthetic vocal layers and monologues reveal an identity constantly dissolving and reforming in abstraction. The film explores the brutal erosion of human presence, where technological promise fails to stabilize consciousness, leaving only fleeting fragments of a once-coherent existence.
About the artist
Yelim Ki (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who challenges the intersections of cinematic images mediated on screen and material reality through video, sculpture, and interactive media. Grounded in animism and media archaeology theory, her work critically examines the promises and illusions of technological permanence. Her film (2021) received the Special Jury Prize at the 23rd Jeonju International Film Festival. Ki’s work has been exhibited at various venues including MMCA Seoul, Frieze Seoul, e-flux Film & Video Festival, Instrument Inventors(iii), EXiS (Seoul Experimental Film and Video Festival), and ACC (Asia Culture Center Cinematheque). Her works are archived in SeMA AA (Art Archives, Seoul Museum of Art) and KOFA (Korean Film Archive).
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