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When Paldang Dam was built, many farmers lost their farms. Instead, they started organic farming in their land around Han River. In 2008, Korean government announced four River Plans including Paldang. The plan in Paldang organic town is to build bike lanes and a public park instead of farms. It causes serious conflicts among the farmers as they decide if they should fight against the government.

The footage contains scenery from various areas in Tokyo such as Akasaka, Ueno Park, and Shimbashi. As Korean subtitles are included, it is presumed to have been produced for the Korean audience. The film vividly documents sights and scenes of Tokyo including Tenryumon, a Chinese-style building that was a popular spot in Ueno Park before its destruction in the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945; the activities of the Tokyo City Youth League, established in 1925, who played a role in the support of the wartime system; people walking downtown; and the movement of a train from Shimbashi Station through Tokyo Station to Kanda Station. Acquired in 2010, and transferred in 4K resolution.

During the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations, despite the question "Are there still people doing student movements?", there were youths guarding Gwanghwamun Square. Time passes and the director, now in her thirties, seeks out colleagues from that time when those moments began to feel meaningless. What remains for them, and how much has the world they hoped for changed? The film follows moments where past passion and present life intersect, reflecting on memories of activism and what came after.​

Park Do-soon, the founder of Suneung(South Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test), had failed in his own university entrance exam. His creation—Suneung—would face similar trials. Although designed to put an end to test-oriented education, his new admissions system would be reshaped by external pressures and societal backlash against his intention. Amid the growing controversy, Suneung and the broader admissions reform faced the threat of being scrapped altogether. Ultimately, compromises were made, such as including science and social studies in the test.

A short film by Cho Hye Jeong

The circumstances of artists associated with their studios are very diverse. In an era where it is difficult to occupy even one square foot of residential space due to inequality in space due to economic and social conditions, artists who own or rent studios to produce art have continued to walk a tightrope between thinking and reality. How is it possible to do what you want to do? Depending on the type of work and socioeconomic conditions, the method of occupation, size of space, and method of utilization are very different.

Kwang-an 3dong is a town in Busan, the largest port city of Korea, but the town itself isso old and humble that there is no public service offices or school. Even sea gulls are not willing to visit the town. But recently the town gets excites in expectation of urban renewal program.

This is a movie that talks about an old man who is living alone. The most scared thing for elderly people is feeling lonely and all they need is companion. only the loneliness and desperation are left in his life when he loses the love from his children.

An old couple settles down in Miryang to spend time on their latter half of life. It is said that power transmission towers will be built for Kori nuclear power plant. Their plan has been ruined badly. The couple goes up to a mountain to join the residents for protest. In this heaven, where the duality of law is used for good and evil, can the old couple settle down safely? ​

The piano is an instrument without which it is impossible to imagine the musical world. But how did it first make its way from Western civilization to areas where it was traditionally unavailable, and what were the consequences? In her short film poem, the author becomes an archaeologist of sorts through evocative images of the piano amidst natural scenery and questions about the Korean adoption of the chamber note A, which is a tuning standard in music, as she uncovers historical, social, and cultural layers in relation to sound.

<(Welcome to) The Planet of Orchids> is a cinematic anthology exploring the fascinating lives of orchids and their intricate relationships with neighbouring species. In this film, orchids are portrayed as indigenous beings who have thrived despite humans' indiscriminate colonization of ecosystems. Orchids take centre stage as protagonists, unfolding their unique or ordinary narratives from a plant-centred viewpoint. As such, the diverse and multidimensional dynamics of the transhuman community, which all ecosystem members belong, are revealed, and human audiences finally encounter 'Planet Orchid'.

Animal Liberation Wave activists uncover 15 cows adjacent to an illegal dog farm and resolve to rescue them. Dubbing them "Flower Cows," they garner support through public donations, livestock farmers, and local activists, managing to temporarily shelter six of the cows at a ranch in Inje County. In their quest for a permanent home, the activists work to bridge the generational divide with the elderly residents of Sinwol Village in Inje County. Together, they embark on an ambitious project to build a cow sanctuary. Their collaborative efforts culminate in the establishment of Korea's first cow sanctuary, repurposing a closed school in Sinwol.

A photograph of someone. They are emptied, replaced by something else. I discover the vertical side of 8mm fits with the empty screen.

18 years have passed since the implementation of the Employment Permit System, and through this system, many migrant workers have stepped on Korean land, with the goal of chasing their dreams. The protagonists of this film also came to Korea in search of a dream,but because there’s no freedom to change workplace in the Employment Permit System, their dreams are hitting the walls of reality.This is the story of 3 migrant workers living the harsh lives of laborers.

94.6% of Script writers are women in Korea. Script writers are one of the representative job sectors which is well known to have the most non-regular workers in Broadcasting industry. Those women working for broadcasting have decided to form a labor union after suffering from low wages and long hours of labor that have not changed for more than two decades. ‘Labor union’ It reminded us of men in red headbands, vests and scary face! we’ve never thought of this except for considering it as a topic at TV programs we make. This is the first time in our life that we've ever been in a labor union, so too hard for us. We’re tired of our lives, again being beaten by the injustice in our workplace.

Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.

Untitled is an early work by Park Hyunki, shot on 16mm film and presented as a black-and-white silent projection. Set against a stark white wall, the work shows the artist repeatedly jumping in place until his body becomes exhausted and collapses.

Pass Through the City documents a tripartite performance staged by Park Hyunki in Daegu on March 22, 1981. Park fabricated two enormous stones out of resin and embedded mirrors onto their surfaces. One stone was installed on the floor of Maekhyang Gallery, while the other was loaded onto a sixteen-meter truck and driven through downtown Daegu for forty minutes. After the ride, the stone was moved to a busy sidewalk by a bank, where passersby touched its surface, gathered around it, and looked at themselves in the mirror. The work was recorded on 16mm film.

Walk, Don't Walk captures landscapes encountered across various regions during a journey through Asia. Having left Asia and been living in Europe, Kim Soun-Gui responds to the transformations of Asia with acute visual and mental sensitivity. Like a diary, she records places such as Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, Jongno and Seoul Station in Korea.

From inside the funicular heading to Harder Kulm, the landscapes in the foreground and background appear to shift at different speeds with the train’s motion. These vistas gradually accumulate, yielding various impressions.

The science of carbon counting is becoming a quintessential knowledge practice that characterizes the age of the climate crisis. From the carbon footprint information on a soda can to the international treaties on carbon credits, we count carbon to design and orient our climate policies. Knowing the accurate amount of carbon emission and absorption, however, is not as easy as it might sound, since counting carbon is heavily affected by contrasting methodologies, competing economic interests, and conflicting cultural standards. The carbon numbers, like all important numbers, are scientific and political at the same time.

Martial law and the square that sweeped South Korea. The same fans I saw at the concert halls were there. Dear you, who brought your light to the square.

As a child, director felt no shame in being a lesbian—she was open, unapologetic, and never thought to hide it. But as she grew older, something changed. She began introducing her girlfriend as a boyfriend, stumbling when asked why “he” wasn’t serving in the military. Longing to reclaim the pride she once carried so naturally, she embarks on a journey to confront the source of her silence—listening to the voices of her family and friends who have walked alongside her life.

A lady in her mid-70s was social and active. Although she took heart medicine every day, she continued to participate in various gatherings and activities. However, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she gave up all outdoor activities, spending most of her time in or around the home. Since then, she has unfurled conversations with plants on the balcony, plants in the kitchen, and those rooted in the vegetable garden too. ‘Get Some Sunshine’ explores a day in the life of this lady (the film director’s mother) and the solidarity she developed with companion plants during the pandemic.

This documentary follows the philosophy of Dosan Ahn Changho, a man who transformed his era through action rather than words. Young filmmakers from Korea embark on a journey across the United States, tracing the Dosan Musical and Dosan Symphony Orchestra tours that celebrate his enduring legacy. Through music, interviews, and the landscapes Dosan once walked, they rediscover his ideals of integrity, diligence, and community in the language of today. Retracing the footsteps of a youth from a century ago, the film asks a timeless question to our generation — How should we live, here and now?

A korean girl, illegal immigrant crosses the vast continent between Paris and Seoul, in search of the true meaning of the freedom by following strangers on the road and through her dream of the beyond world.

Yun Suknam, born in 1939, supported her widowed mother and siblings from a young age. By the time she turned 40, she felt suffocated by societal roles and chose to pursue painting, spending all her money on supplies and refusing to quit. As a first-generation feminist artist, she continues to paint in her eighties, proving that art is about perseverance, resilience, and an unbreakable will.

This film is an attempt to create the certain sense of places in Manchuria. Sound and images excerpts from Manchurian action films and official photo documents of Manchuria areas are crossed to arouse sensory experiences.

In April 1920, the Japanese army slaughtered Koreans living in Vladivostok. They also executed Korean revolutionaries such as Kim Afanasi and Alexandra Petrovna Kim before the forced migration of 1937. The scenes of Korean genocide in Ussuriysk and Vladivostok make up the exile trilogy prequel, and archives history on screen.

Attending a straight friend’s wedding, I feel incredibly jealous. I recently broke up with my girlfriend of three years, and I was sure I would be the first to get married. People say celebrations are reciprocal, but as a queer person, I wonder if I will ever get my wedding gift money back. While I hope that same-sex marriage is possible, I question whether the institution of ‘marriage’ is truly necessary for living well together.

Miss Kim Lilac is a story about a lilac tree called ‘Miss Kim’ that was brought to america from its native korea and named by an american botanist. The tree's name, which has changed over time as it moved across countries, is an imprint of colonial history, female objectification, capitalization of nature, and the migration of korean women.

Nobody likes to play tennis with Tyrano so he endlessly hits the ball against the wall – until one day he meets Brachi. Playing a match, however, doesn’t quite work out as Brachi keeps falling over. Tyrano tries everything to make Brachi stay and finds out in the end that all the other dinos have their problems, too. But hey, whatever!

How can we excavate and rewrite the stories of ghostly beings, intertwined in places banished from our senses? To do this, we sift through the debris of history, scrupulously collecting and connecting stories, while distorting the time like a botanist on the asphalt, as dislocated botanists, twisting the time of a smiling garden into a stroll to reminisce – to embrace repressed, estranged kinship.

Test prep students and filmstrips cannot resist (p). However, I have doubts about the preceding proposition (p) by making the following playful arrangement or associative reasoning, and I try to examine the possibility of its negation (~p). {α(1)=CSAT(수능), α(2)=Conformity(순응), α(3)=Non-CSAT(비수능), α(4)=Non-Conformity(비순응), α(5)=Anti-CSAT(반수능), α(6)=Anti-Conformity(반순응), ... , α(2n-1)=?, α(2n)=?, …} This work is filled with direct or indirect image(s) related to this arrangement or reasoning. Between the chain(s) of these image(s), there is (I believe) a certain emotion mixed with anxiety, remorse, anger, etc.

Upon hearing the news about the redevelopment of the Kolon Shopping Mall in Cheonho-dong, Won Taewoong, the director of Universe Department Store, recalls the Universe Department Store that opened in the 1980s and shut down in three years.

The main character of the film, who the director happened to get in touch with, is a loan shark. He went to the same college and studied film together with the director twelve years ago. Now a money lender and debtor himself, he is addicted to gambling and struggles in the vicious circle of his pathetic life.

During the Korean War in 1950, the Bodo League massacre began in Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. On July 12 of that year, Taean Police Station massacred 115 civilians just before retreating from the 'fraudulent reality'. At that time, state power massacred these civilians only through the assumption that they would sympathize with the People's Army, which is about to occupy Taean. The damage in Taean didn't stop here. The People's Army, which occupied Taean, massacred 116 civilians on the grounds that it would punish the reaction. However, this was only a preview of the catastrophe that was to follow.

Hyun-jung lives with her friend named J who has both male and female’s sexual organs. She gets deeply involved in J’s life and conflicts break out. The film starts off as Hyun Jung’s raw curiosity about androgyny, but it leads to a subtle psychological drama. This film offers a chance to consider relationships between a person who lives in normal life and who wants to live a normal life.

Kwang-Ja Lee, a counsellor at ‘Lifeline Korea’ has been listening to anonymous people’s stories for 45 years. Every day, she is all ears to stories that cannot be shared anywhere else. Image and sound react to it and creates new reflective space that seems to be the bottom of one’s heart.

My mother, Gyeongja , who celebrated her 60th birthday in the Year of the White Rat (called "Gyeong Ja year" in Korean) according to the Chinese zodiac, got divorced after 29 years of marriage. She leaves the city where she lived and moves from place to place in search of work. With my heart for my mother in such a situation, I stay with her and start making a film. Following my mother's story that I shared with her late at night, I look back on the past year filled with many worries and sensations.

Hak-kyung Cha is a writer, performer, and video artist born in South Korea and based in the United States. The inspiration I received from reinterpreting her artworks is reflected in my life. "We" achieve a balance and perform a solo dance together, and I dedicate my soul to her.

Official propaganda about the mass games. Especially weird is the massive “screen” in the back, composed of 15,000 or more individuals each holding a coloured placard.

Using an assemblage of illustrated images, Yeonu Ju explores mass gatherings in her tripartite work A Crowd. The first part, Belief, considers crowds gathered at concerts and sporting events. In Crossroads, people teem the city streets. Finally, Dinosaur presents us with the eventuality of humanity en masse: image upon image of waste. The pixelated images go in and out of focus, their unsettling instability echoing the inherent fickleness of crowds themselves.

Thirty years ago, the women workers at Dong-Il Corporation realized the need to unite the workers struggle with the pro-democracy movement, and fought against corporations and the state. Losing their jobs as a result, the women, now in their mid-50s, are fighting another fight. Through interviews, this documentary calmly examines the struggles that these women experienced during the period. Listening to the experiences of the women as conveyed through their own words, one comes to realize the important things in life.

Just out of college, Heewon sets off on an ‘International Internship Program’ in Australia to beef up her career resume. A self-proclaimed “global talent”, she enjoys the cosmopolitan and chic city lifestyle for a bit. Soon drained of money by the high price of life in Sydney, she gets a part-time job and rubs shoulders with other young people living abroad away from home. When the time comes to return home to Korea, she hears rumors of the big money that can be made working out on a farm and experiencing the great Australian outdoors. She decides to give it a go and rallies people to join her on this “Outback Dream”.

In 2007, a 19-year-old girl wrote a letter in Vietnamese to her Korean husband. 7 years later, the letter is read in Korean.