HIC!

hic! by Minkyung Kim is an almost one-and-a-half minute stop motion short that focuses on hiccups – the type that stop you from sleeping. Using a black background almost the entire time and only a handful of visual and sonic elements, Kim allows the viewer to feel just how tiresome and debilitating night time hiccupping can be and that the usual methods don’t necessarily help to get rid of it. Eventually the protagonist takes radical measures to end the hiccups. Taking its stylistic bearings from horror and comedy, this short film’s overriding theme is loss of control. Kim makes clear that wanting to control the uncontrollable might actually be the problem. Instead, it’s letting go that turns out to be the tried and tested means for regaining control over one’s own body.
 
Enrico Mario Hörster

Minkyung Kim