LEE’S LAB
Jimin Lee (Christine)
giminoflegend@gmail.com
Instagram @christiiinelee
Jimin is a South Korean-born mixed media artist and recent graduate at Syracuse University. She works across multiple media, including film, animation, videography, and design. She has two years of professional experience in audio post-production in film, working across both South Korea and the United States. Most recently, she directed and co-produced Ants, a short film completed as her graduation project at Syracuse University.
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003 - A search for the American Dream
003 - A search for the American Dream
Creative Director, Kollin Washington
Director of Photography, Kollin Washington
Photographer, Kollin Washington
Producer, Kollin Washington, Jamer Howard, and Mackenzie Gullage
Video Editor, Jimin Lee
Camera, Chris Bush, and Sydney Dungey
PA, Karl Lamb Jr, and Thea Rose
Starring Levia Ropheka
link to the animation bts video
The American Dream is a phrase nearly a century old, coined by James Truslow Adams, and yet no one has ever agreed on what it means. Politicians invoke it endlessly: the American Dream this, the American Dream that — but they never define it. And that vagueness is strategic. It allows the phrase to mean capitalism to one person, freedom of speech to another, and something else entirely to a third. Society has quietly narrowed it to owning a house and a car, while the First Amendment — a freedom many nations never see — gets buried beneath the noise of individual achievement.
That's where we are as a nation — unable to engage through a shared lens, because we no longer share a common understanding of reality.
This project is an exploration of what the American Dream means for those still searching for it.
written by Levia Ropheka
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