Documentary, short film, and character editing — video, painting, and photography as different forms of the same question: what a picture does to the thing inside it.
A TikTok channel matching songs to overlooked characters. Every edit makes one argument: the label is a lie, look closer. Taught myself After Effects mid-way and accepted a drop in views to gain control over the craft.
Selected through a public open call (1 of 2) to direct a 5-episode English documentary on Korea's royal palaces, built from primary sources. The institute uses the films to train future youth guides.
A five-minute essay film that uses AI to expose AI's own environmental cost — one act of asking exposes both the student's shortcut and the machine's hidden price. Finalist, One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest.
Directed the Korean live-action segment and assembled three countries' footage into one film for a Korea–Indonesia–Colombia student exchange. Screened at festivals across three continents.
A two-image work on the same street scene: an abandoned painting between garbage bags, and a body that won't wash off under a warning sign. Juried into the youth division of the Seoul Youth Biennale; published in art in art.
I've been doing media studies on myself since I was young — noticing the gap between what something is labeled and what it actually is.
Video, painting, photography: to me they're different forms of one question — what a picture does to the person or story inside it. You can learn technique on YouTube, but you can't learn how to see. That's the part I'm still working on.