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In the first scene, two men stand outside of a car, waiting for the air conditioner to cool down the vehicle. As one puts on some house music using the car’s CD player, their silence is broken into a state of indescribable feelings. In the second scene, shot on Super 8 film, a person tries to recount a story as he spins a pen around in his hands. As he narrates the story which he cannot fully remember, he ponders this unusual amnesia. In the third scene, also filmed on Super 8, focuses on two pairs of hands cutting each other’s nails, the caring yet sensitive gesture were echoed by the intertitles. Improvised with a non-white cast, featuring queer and asian bodies, these fragmented memories, uneasy gossip, and moments of silence, center on one key question: When the idea of an individual subject cannot take form, how might we reconsider being visible, audible, or legible?

In English and Chinese, the word "clue (线索)" contains reference to "threads." This work creates a virtual space with a library as the backdrop, while using the image of "threads" throughout the film. The library, as a symbol of order, contains the collection and organization of human knowledge, while the linear forms have the dual possibility of both chaos and order. The combination of and tension between the images of books, globes, ropes, knots, chains, and the statue of Sleeping Ariadne refers to the act of people finding their way through the network of information.

"The story of cows who didn't become meat." In 2002, people called bullfight a tradition and defined it as legal. At the same time, various bullfighting competitions were held and a huge gambling house was built. They dragged the cows into a huge amphitheater and made them fight. The gambling tickets were sold like hotcakes and fanfare burst everywhere. In the midst of it, something that is not a human being is bleeding, crying, and shedding tears. However, no one seems to be interested. On the endless truck, bulls shyly sticking out their heads speak to the camera. "By the way, can you listen to my story?“

It is a work that gazes at the distance between stillness and movement, between scene and scene, between different entities and time and space. It pays attention to the usage, movements, and possibility of variations of the diverse 'distances' that exist between them. If it takes a long time to move from one scene to the next, and if there are things that can only be seen after some time or from a distance, the 'time-distance' is necessary for an image to appear and disappear. What if this work captures this 'time-distance'? When a scene/image contains a single space-time, it might enable different time-space, objects, matter, non-matter in a far distance to meet, even for a brief time. Based on such ideas, the work connects one scene to the next, the voices of anonymous speakers to another. It captures the distance and the sense of distance of the things that do not stay and cannot be reached. By doing so, it seeks possible formless connections and temporary coexistence.

This work explores the issue of digital heritage that has arrived. I imagined a career as a data encoffiner, using her perspective to examine the data that people have left in the world. Digital heritage carries the memories of the dead, the sorrows and joys... For the clues, we follow the path of the data grave to explore the secrets of a person’s memory.

Doomsday Video is a fictional archive of the on-going 2020 and an instruction for the doomsday.

Black Sun X : Casper, Witch, and Handstanderus traces the trajectory of catastrophes from their nascence to the present. It weaves together fragments of loosely connected narratives under 'Black Sun X' that implies constantly swelling catastrophes. This work consists of three narratives; Casper who was a beloved comic character in popular culture, Witch-hunt that occurred during the transition period between feudalism and capitalism after the wake of Black Death (and still remains in today's disturbing situation), and 'Handstanderus' who is a group of people trying to find new ways of thinking through plants.

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.

What does excluding someone mean to us? Why is it wrong to exclude someone? It is easy to perform exclusion and elimination. But taking the easy way out, it always brings problems. Those who are considered "non-existent." Among them, children are the most easily discriminated against. A story about a No-Kids Zone that prohibits children from entering, and about children that society wants to consider as "non-existence."

Hollywood musicals on a massive scale are pleasing to our eyes and ears. But the more I watch them, the more I wonder why there aren't many musical films in Korea. This documentary goes to meet the directors who researched and made musical films in Korea, a wasteland of musical films, and also tells the story of a student who takes on the challenge of filming a musical from the perspective of young people, based on his research and interviews with those directors.

The space where people live is not just a place to feed and house themselves. It means a place where the emotions of life are accumulated and melted for a long time. Therefore, we call it home or hometown. Home or hometown, which expresses coziness and comfort to people, is just an unfamiliar expression to those who live in Onsan. The people of Onsan resemble dandelions, who cannot take root in their place of living and float like dust.

Recognizing the seriousness of the problem of garbage caused by food delivery, I decided to practice the #container_for_courage challenge, an environmental movement that has recently spread, for a week.

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.

A group of first-degree visually impaired (fully blind) people spontaneously formed the "Mind Music Club", preparing to hold the band's first offline ticket concert. The society gives them too much prejudice, and they don't even have the right to go to the playground to relax and play···. They want to let more people hear the voice of their hearts through singing.

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and growth. All of these efforts started with an experience dated back to her childhood.

The name of this film refers to the lectures of two Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburō Ōe. In their Nobel prize speeches, directed at the Western audience, they meditate on the Japanese identity and how it correlates with their oeuvre. Tomotosi plays up this classic heritage. The artist delicately intervenes in city rituals via six performances and records his fellow citizens' reactions. In this way, he dissects daily life and the unwritten rules of social interaction in Japan.

A group of four girlfriends stash a letter in a time capsule when they were 15 years old. In ten years they would see each other again at Christmas and open the capsule again. But things turn out differently when one of the four falls seriously ill.

“Awkward Apologies” is a documentary-publication project, it is the third part of my documentary “Four Journeys”. The outcomes of “Awkward Apologies” has a publication “Awkward Apologies”, and a documentary “Four Journeys-3, Awkward Apologies”.

Short film by Ryushin Suzuki

A man back to his hometown,and felt familiar with someplace he used to stay.

The ‘Fumble Studio’, featuring 8 short films tied together, was created between 2013~2020. There are works that are created after organizing the exact scenario and stories that are constructed while creating the works. Most are about contradictions, stress and hypocrisy that have been experienced while working. After all, It was all about me.

PP Daddy is a hardworking office clerk who, pressured by family duties and overtime, never had a chance to fulfill his dreams. One day, during a lunch break nap, a dream takes him back to a childhood drawing competition…

This film explores the "craftsman's spirit”, focusing on how the last generation of shipbuilders found emotional sustenance in their trade and the merging of traditional arts and crafts with new modern technologies.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on numerous sporting activities. This film describes the hurdles company manager Cheong Wai and his assistant, boxer Cheong Lap Cheong, are facing together. With the near prospect of shutting down the boxing academy they run, how will they survive such a tough challenge?

A tribute to the films of Itō Takashi

This video series is based on Shasei-cho, a sketchbook by Okyo Maruyama (1733-1795, Japan). The Shasei-cho was copied by various other artists and became a fundamental reference for how Japanese perceive and record the natural world. 蝶 Butterfly was created by photographing actual butterflies in super-slow motion with reference to the composition and drawing style of the Shasei-cho. Each movement is a reflection of the butterfly's behavior, characteristics and personality at the time. This work is a modern-day Shasei-cho that I observed and recorded based on the techniques of the great painters of the past.

Right / Now I am a monkey / A hundred-eye monkey / Right / Just now / I disguised / The hundred-eye monkey / In front of you / Squatting on the branches / Curling up like a monkey / With brown hair all over the body / So resemble / I keep still, really still / The leaves above my head keep me warm at night / It might be raining soon / But that’s fine / Leaves are water-proofed / I remain still / I am away from everything under the leaves / They keep me invisible from anyone or anything / Like bears, goats, mosquitos, earthworms, and even another piece of leave / I am safe, thus, I will keep being still / I feel fine / Yes, I think this is me / The look of my body doesn’t mean anything to me anymore / As long as I close my eyes / I could be anything I want

In China, most of the young people in the countryside moved to the cities for better job opportunities. Only children and old people are left behind. They live around this river and this bridge. This dangerous bridge has not been repaired for 20 years. It seems that all the problems, the persons and the objects in the countryside have been forgotten.

Short animation by Holly Lo

A teenager living with her grandparents questions her sexual orientation when she starts bonding with a classmate.

In our life, we are afraid of death and want to catch the most important person or the best time of our life, however, we can’t control that, but we need to face that bravely. The story emphasises the message about the cycle of life, relationship, and connection between family and generation and the concept of Chinese death. The thesis of the story is about growing and finding the meaning of death.

A phenomenon wherein people of different races sing a Filipino song in spite of being unfamiliar with the language in a Catholic church in Taiwan. Discover the spectacle of how a community has been unified that breaks cultural and language differences through music and religion.

One day a girl and a boy set off to reach their ideal place. However, the girl comes to realize that the place they had arrived was not what she had really wanted. As the scenery around them changes, they find their minds too exist in gradations.

Juxtaposing two films made during different periods of major political, economic and social upheaval in China, Maja Korbecka complicates dominant narratives of women’s liberation, displaying ways in which female characters can be made to serve as a mouthpiece for power.

A tiny life takes on a life or death challenge amid the majestic grandeur of the Tateyama mountain range. Can a swan muster the courage to survive if it is unable to fly? A story sure to deepen your appreciation of life’s power and wonder.

A creature on the threshold between human and monster stages a wedding ceremony with itself. It splits its body in half and walks down the aisle, stepping over its own falling organs. Two ringed hands clasp together, a kiss is exchanged, and the ritual concludes. As bodily rupture and wedding ceremony intertwine, the piece defamiliarises the formal structure of marriage as an institutional rite.

Using the concept of a ‘regulated house’, the work compares residential land undevelopable under Japanese building codes with laws restricting same-sex marriage. Artists Marina Lisa Komiya and Chihiro Suzuki embrace queerness and challenge heteronormativity by creating a garden rather than a conventional home.

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

2021 release

A boy, alone in a black world, feels emptiness and makes a window with a white paper. A light comes into his black world, and he sees another black world through the window. The boy flies all his papers into the air to make windows in the world as many as he can. People enjoy the light by the windows. One day, the boy sees a man curled up in his world. The boy makes a paper airplane with his paper and sends it to the man.