Flying High, Longlist - Short Film - Non Fiction

Majid Rabet - Engineer, Inventor and Artist

Yeoseop Yoon

Powerhouse Museum

“I like to create … to make people happy and do something positive” - Majid Rabet Majid Rabet is a mechanical and electrical engineer, inventor and artist whose natural curiosity has pushed him to constantly create. He has made his own tools and gadgets in the most challenging environments, and in his workshop has designed and manufactured everything from street art to a wind and solar energy capture device. After fleeing Iran to seek asylum in Australia, Majid found himself in detention, but continued to draw from his skills and imagination to create objects to improve the comfort and for the enjoyment of those around him. Commissioned and Produced by the Powerhouse MORE https://collection.maas.museum/set/8217

Yeoseop grew up in Seoul, Korea and moved to Australia at the age of 16. This dichotomy of Eastern and Western culture afforded him a unique perspective. In language, Yeoseop found English to be very subjective and poetic while Korean more literal and critical. These two different aspects of communication are at the heart of his clear individual style and brand of cinema. Yeoseop developed a desire to tell stories by observing his surroundings. What he noticed was poetry. In every corner of life, whatever the situation, whatever the environment, there is poetry, a beauty that holds its form regardless. Yeoseop enjoys putting magnifying glasses on the most minuscule aspects of an individuals life and amplifying its essence. Making it very personal and intimate so that it becomes relatable at a universal, human level, allowing some insight into why we are the way we are.