Choi Min-Hwa

The painting materializes the lyrics of a hymn in the scriptures of Cheondogyo, a religion based on the Donghak movement. The work references research on Oh Yoon’s woodcut prints, which was one of the studies to explore traditional formalism, one of the main interests of Minjung art in the 1980s.

Haejun JO & KyeongSoo LEE

The narrative of the film is based on an oral memory about a real event that happened in the 1970s in Jinan in Jeonbuk Province, South Korea. In the film, Haejun JO and KyeongSoo LEE discover a small boat in reclaimed land near a US military base in the city of Gunsan.

Kim In-whoe

Until the late 1960s, records of Korean shamanism were limited to materials by Japanese folklorists in the 1920s and 1930s and a small number of scholars in Korean Studies. A young educationalist in those days, Kim In-whoe felt the Western educational paradigm was limitedly applied to Korean society and became interested in Koreans’ traditional religious beliefs, or shamanism.

Searching for Dead Dogs

My grandmother’s home has a mystery. Whenever my grandmother takes care of a dog, it dies. This project explores essayistic personal documentary film as an artful and moving humanly rich form, following the track of grandmother’s life story.

Sang-il Choi, Jiyeon Kim

Materials in the listening archive Grandmothers’ Lounge: From the Other Side of Voices were selected by radio producer Sang-il Choi out of the three radio programs he produced at MBC from 1989 to 2005, Korean Traditional Folksongs, Baekdu-Daegan Folk Travel, and Korean Traditional Singers.

Trailer Project
Trailer Project

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES: MAKING SENSE WHEN THERE'S YOU, NONSENSE, AND LONELINESS / IS DOKDO OUR LAND?