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Peninsula Tour departs from Seoul and travels through the “Asian Highway” into China. This tour finds the worlds dis/continuity through air and land, virtuality and reality, old and new technologies. The tour ends up with an unexpected encounter of a German traveler who visited North Korea. The film reflects the hypocrisy and the deception of globalization, freedom and unification today through a stranger with similar experiences.

I lost my passion for filmmaking after becoming a film major. However, I regain my passion by meeting my peers and a film director and listening to their stories.

M was born in Japan, and after liberation, he and his family moved back to Korea, their homeland. Since then, he has been living as a potter, as an engineer, as a shipyard worker, and then as a businessman. This change of his occupations overlaps with his unstable life, like the four names he got after changing his name four times.

About Anne Czeksowikov, the great film-maker hidden from the world.

A docent introduces a video installation that the audience is about to see. She describes the subject of the video as an investigation into a person called Lea and her dubious identity on Facebook. The question is deftly transposed onto the credibility of the docent whose appearance mirrors the depiction of Lea, delegitimising the initial inquiry, ‘Who is Lea?’

A Better World (2017) follows the process of the ballot counting for the 19th Presidential Election in South Korea. The election took place in 2017 subsequent to a series of Candlelight protests leading to the impeachment of the predecessor. The highly charged atmosphere and restless energy amongst volunteers are palpable in the attentive documentation of the arrival and opening of ballot boxes in the public eye. As the counting begins the footage is coupled with another frame, shot with a thermal imaging camera, unveiling the unseen layer of an already transparent process.

Born, Unborn and Born Again revolves around my struggle to embody the White Horse, a zodiac sign which occurs every 60-year cycle in East Asian Countries. This film explores the transnational nature of governmental control over reproductive systems, and how this oppression manifests in our bodies and perceptions of self. I use the structure of my mother tongue, Korean, and my second language, English, to contemplate ruptures, repetition of time, and violence against women. An untold history resurfaces in the present, and re-orients us towards the future.

"Yongwangung was a Gutdang (shaman’s shrine) where first generation Korean women who crossed the seas from Jeju to Japan use to go before the Second World War. In 2009, I heard that the shrine was about to be demolished by the Osaka city government. My childhood memory of my mother praying in the kitchen came back when I was filming elderly women in Jeju and I felt the urge to have a shamanistic ritual for my mother who had been hospitalized."

My name is HER Yoon-soo and Iminm 25 years old. Iminve somehow managed to graduate from a film school, and now my dream is to stand on my own two feet while making films. Yet in reality, I still flit from one part-time job to another, working at cafes and restaurants. I turn to some of the alumni from my film school in search of success stories. But the reality they face is far different from my expectations.

An exposé on how millennials are changing North Korea, featuring interviews with defectors and footage shot in the country itself.

The 'North Korea Freedom Week' events have been held every year since 2004, but have not garnered that much interest or awareness. There is much talk of the defectors doing a lot of work for reunification, but in reality, many do not how or what work the defector are doing. The purpose is to show through the documentary, what effect the 12th North Korea Freedom Week has had both here and abroad. There was a desire to show what could be accomplished by the defectors who have been training and learning, and preparing. There was a desire to show what we as a society must do first, for reunification.

This film tells the story of the historical and current issues surrounding Korean Reunification through Korean Christianity while exploring churches in North Korea and South Korea. The vivid interviews with the members of an underground church in North Korea, North Korean defectors and missionaries provide insight and backstory to Korean reunification. With this unprecedented access, the film is a must see for anyone interested in Korean reunification.

This documentary is about a suspicious death of a first lieutenant Kim Hoon occurred at Panmunjom in Feburary 1998. Without clear justification, his death was made into a suicide case, leavng the truth unrevealed.

It’s been a while since high school baseball lost its glory. And to prove this, only a few parents and alumni are sitting in the seats. No one takes much notice of the consistently-losing Wonju High Baseball Team, yet the passion they display in this career-determining match is exceptional. To these players, baseball is everything, and the baseball field is an intense and competitive world.

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.

‘I’ am curious as to how my dad came to have such conviction in his support of the conservative party despite his poverty and set off for my hometown of Daegu right before the local elections on June 2nd, 2010. A new kind of ‘Family Documentary’ that takes a sharp jab at the mindset of Korean society’s conservative class and conflict between generations.

A documentary about the vulnerability of a sex trafficking rallying point in Yongjugol, a city threatened with 'forced closure'.

Industrialization and scientific advancement have freed most of the world from hunger, and crushed the idea that agriculture is the foundation of a nation. For precious food to reach us, vegetation must be cared for daily. Yet, farming has become a profession to be avoided, causing the aging of farmers and shrinking of farmlands. Will it be okay to lose local farming in our near future?

Grandpa, Daddy, and two sons, Spanning three generations. Embark on a journey to Hungary to reunite with the mother. This road trip documentary captures the diverse natural environments and culturesthey encounter as they travel through various countries to reach their destination.

"Have you ever wanted to just leave everything behind and take off to a faraway place?" Here are two people who didn’t just imagine it but actually made it happen. Do-won and Myung-chul left behind their familiar and convenient city life to start anew in an unfamiliar place—Cheongsan (靑山). Cheongsan Island reveals itself only after a six-hour bus ride from Seoul, followed by another hour-long ferry journey. In a place where even those in their sixties are considered young, the arrival of a couple in their thirties was nothing short of astonishing. Wherever they go, their youth stands out. Do-won works as a social worker at a local children’s center, while Myung-chul volunteers at a church café. Though they are still adjusting, little by little, they are building a home for themselves on the island. In Cheongsan, a designated "Slow City" where slowness is considered an art, Do-won and Myung-chul lead surprisingly busy lives.

In the region of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, Palestinians are being subjected to ethnic cleansing. Homes that have been passed down since the days of their grandparents are being reduced to rubble by bulldozers. Families who have lived by farming olive trees are forcibly displaced, and Israeli settlements are built in their place. Under international law, these acts are clear violations, yet they continue unabated. In the space of this grotesque violence—where Palestinian homes are demolished to make way for Israeli settlements—there is a familiar logo affixed to the heavy machinery. It belongs to HD Hyundai, one of South Korea's largest conglomerates. Suddenly, what once felt like a distant geopolitical issue jump-cuts into our lives—right to our doorstep.

Kanchanaburi, Thailand, was a key site during World War II where the Japanese military operated POW camps and military brothels. Cho Moon-sang served as a prison guard, while Noh Su-bok endured suffering as a "comfort woman." Heo Yeong, a propaganda officer for the Japanese army, produced films that distorted the realities of POW camps. After the war ended in 1945, Cho was sentenced to death as a war criminal. Unable to return to Korea due to his collaboration, Heo aided Korean prison guards in their escape. Noh, rather than returning home, chose to remain in Thailand and rebuild her life.

When the Korean War ended and my grandfather returned his home. The house was completely burned down and smoking. My grandfather started rebuilding his house with his family. And 70 years have passed..

When my grandfather returned home after exile, he found his house burnt-out and smoldering. He and his family began to rebuild their home, and 70 years have passed.

A stringed instrument workshop in Gyeongju. Dong-joon is a man who has dedicated his entire life to the violin. He has suffered from hearing loss since the age of one, and without a hearing aid he cannot even hear the sound of an airplane passing overhead. Making a sound-sensitive stringed instrument requires extraordinary effort, and Dong-joon's family is worried and concerned about his decision to pursue a career as a musical instrument maker. Meanwhile, Dong-joon prepares to enter an international violin-making competition in Mittenwald, Germany to prove his skills.

What would it be if anything had bloomed from where everything collapsed? Amid the pouring out of irreducible beings, some endure time and space that are only shattered and torn apart.

When the Chitwan National Park was established to protect wildlife, the Tharu people who lived in the area were forced to move out. They were forced to settle in villages on the outskirts of the park. Meanwhile, rhino horn, which became more valuable than gold, led to ruthless poaching, and the rhinos were driven to near extinction. The Nepalese government mobilized the army to protect the rhinos, and it was successful in doing so. However, the national parks provided limited habitat for the growing rhino population. In search of scarce food, rhinos began to cross boundaries and enter the nearest villages. It was inevitable that the first human-animal conflict would occur in the Tharu settlement, the closest village to the national park, the so-called ‘buffer zone.’ Rhinos are disappearing because of human greed, farmers are being forced to leave their villages because of rhinos, while jungle guides are surviving on rhinos. Conflicting desires. Can they coexist in the buffer zone?

I recorded our time around South Korea in 2020.

Kitty and Tommy, who live in Korea, and Mia and Emma, who live in Japan, meet and talk in an online space. With national borders closed due to COVID-19 and physical barriers solidified between their real-world lives, these four, who are among “the first generation whose playgrounds are online,” seek new places to meet and have endless conversations about the way they each move through the world. The ground they stand on is connected by their shared experiences of discrimination and oppression as women born and raised in East Asia, but when they walk and talk with each other’s avatars, there is also a sense of the power of friendship and laughter to overcome depression and anxiety.

The film is about two people with developmental disabilities who are living in Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu after ‘de-institutionalizing' from a residential facility for the disabled where they had stayed for long in 2020. There were frequent incidents and accidents in their independence process although it can be summarized in one sentence. The film attempts to illuminate the value of humane life by allowing their present where they live independently in the community and the past where they lived in the controlled environment of a facility to face.