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'''Gina Kim''' (born 1973, South Korea) is a filmmaker and academic. Kim's five feature-length films and short films have garnered acclaim through screenings at most major film festivals and at venues such as the [[MOMA]], [[Centre Pompidou]] and the [[Smithsonian]]. According to ''Film Comment'', Kim has "a terrific eye, a gift for near-wordless storytelling, a knack for generating a tense gliding rhythm between images and sounds, shots and scenes, and for yielding a quality of radiance in her actors."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/onewayortheother |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000351/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/onewayortheother |archive-date=2013-12-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes at [[Harvard University]], being the first Asian woman teaching in her department (Visual and Environmental Studies). Kim was also a member of the Jury for the 66th [[Venice Film Festival]] and the [[Asian Pacific Screen Awards]] in 2009. Currently, Kim is a Professor at the [[UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television]].<ref name=tft>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2014/08/gina-kim/|title = Gina Kim|date = 4 August 2014}}</ref>
'''Gina Kim''' (born 1973, South Korea) is a filmmaker and academic. Kim's five feature-length films and short films have garnered acclaim through screenings at most major film festivals and at venues such as the [[MOMA]], [[Centre Pompidou]] and the [[Smithsonian]]. According to ''Film Comment'', Kim has "a terrific eye, a gift for near-wordless storytelling, a knack for generating a tense gliding rhythm between images and sounds, shots and scenes, and for yielding a quality of radiance in her actors".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seid |first=Steve |title=BAM/PFA - Film Programs |url=http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/onewayortheother |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000351/http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/onewayortheother |archive-date=2013-12-31 |access-date=2013-12-29 |website=University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive}}</ref> Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes at [[Harvard University]], being the first Asian woman teaching in her department (Visual and Environmental Studies). Kim was also a member of the Jury for the 66th [[Venice Film Festival]] and the [[Asian Pacific Screen Awards]] in 2009. Currently, Kim is a professor at the [[UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television]].<ref name="tft">{{Cite web |date=4 August 2014 |title=Gina Kim |url=http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2014/08/gina-kim/ |website=UCLA School of TFT |access-date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=7 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907114051/http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2014/08/gina-kim/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>


== Film career ==
== Film career ==


=== ''Gina Kim's Video Diary'' (1995–2002)===
=== ''Gina Kim's Video Diary'' (1995–2002)===
In 1995, upon moving to the United States for her MFA, Kim began shooting ''Gina Kim's Video Diary''. In it, Kim realizes a vision of the modern female nomad—one who travels fluidly not only between Asia and America, but between multiple languages, film genres, and personal, local and cinematic histories. Screened at the [[Berlin Film Festival]], ''Gina Kim's Video Diary'' was described in the catalogue as "an extremely personal account of one' woman's fears, fantasies and projections" that "provides the viewer with an unusual self-portrait that is deeply unsettling, moving and life-affirming," and now it is frequently cited as a classic in the genre of personal documentaries.
In 1995, upon moving to the United States for her MFA, Kim began shooting ''Gina Kim's Video Diary''. In it, Kim realizes a vision of the modern female nomad—one who travels fluidly not only between Asia and America, but between multiple languages, film genres, and personal, local and cinematic histories. Screened at the [[Berlin Film Festival]], ''Gina Kim's Video Diary'' was described in the catalogue as "an extremely personal account of one' woman's fears, fantasies and projections" that "provides the viewer with an unusual self-portrait that is deeply unsettling, moving and life-affirming", and now it is frequently cited as a classic in the genre of personal documentaries.


=== ''Invisible Light'' (2003) ===
=== ''Invisible Light'' (2003) ===
Following ''Gina Kim's Video Diary'', Kim began making fiction films to further many of the same concerns as her documentary work. ''Invisible Light'' (2003) tracks the physical and psychological journeys of two Korean/Korean-American women, which led ''Cahiers du Cinema'' to call it "a little block of feminine hardness and repressed anger." ''Senses of Cinema'' also asserts that "Kim's rigorous mise-en-scene matches the unflinching singularity of her vision." In addition to winning the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women's Film Festival, ''Invisible Light'' has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359964/|title = Invisible Light (2003) - IMDb}}</ref>
Following ''Gina Kim's Video Diary'', Kim began making fiction films to further many of the same concerns as her documentary work. ''Invisible Light'' (2003) tracks the physical and psychological journeys of two Korean/Korean-American women, which led ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' to call it "a little block of feminine hardness and repressed anger". ''Senses of Cinema'' also asserts that "Kim's rigorous mise-en-scene matches the unflinching singularity of her vision." In addition to winning the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women's Film Festival, ''Invisible Light'' has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Invisible Light (2003) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359964/ |website=IMDb |access-date=2018-06-29 |archive-date=2017-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326040353/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359964/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


=== ''Never Forever'' (2007) ===
=== ''Never Forever'' (2007) ===
Kim's next film, ''[[Never Forever]]'', premiered at the 2007 [[Sundance Film Festival]] and was nominated for its Grand Jury Prize. Starring [[Vera Farmiga]] and [[Ha Jung-woo]], ''Never Forever'' engages the generic conventions of melodrama to examine facets of gender, sexuality, race and class for both women and Koreans in America. ''Never Forever'' was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea, and it was commended by ''Variety'' for "Kim's highly sensitive camera", which "turns the film into a chamber-piece hushed eroticism and surprising narrative grip." Martin Scorsese has also called the film, "A moving experience [in which] the performances are wonderful and touching, and the style...intense and very precise."<ref name=ves>http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/kim.html</ref> Kim was nominated as Best New Director for the [[Grand Bell Awards]] (South Korea's Academy Awards), and ''Never Forever'' won the Jury Prize at the 2007 [[Deauville American Film Festival]].<ref>Justin Chang, [https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117932572/ Film review of ''Never Forever''], ''[[Variety (magazine)|Daily Variety]]'', January 25, 2007. The movie also received four out of five stars on rottentomatoes.com.</ref><ref>Maitland McDonaugh, [https://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/85428/never-forever.html Movie review of ''Never Forever''], ''[[Time Out New York]]'', issue 654 (2008).</ref><ref>[[Stephen Holden]], [https://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/movies/11neve.html "If You Embrace the Body, the Heart Might Follow"], ''[[New York Times]]'', April 11, 2008.</ref>
Kim's next film, ''[[Never Forever]]'', premiered at the 2007 [[Sundance Film Festival]] and was nominated for its Grand Jury Prize. Starring [[Vera Farmiga]] and [[Ha Jung-woo]], ''Never Forever'' engages the generic conventions of melodrama to examine facets of gender, sexuality, race and class for both women and Koreans in America. ''Never Forever'' was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea, and it was commended by ''Variety'' for "Kim's highly sensitive camera", which "turns the film into a chamber-piece hushed eroticism and surprising narrative grip". Martin Scorsese has also called the film, "A moving experience [in which] the performances are wonderful and touching, and the style...intense and very precise."<ref name="ves">{{Cite web |title=VES Faculty - Gina Kim |url=http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/kim.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224115612/http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/kim.html |archive-date=2013-12-24 |access-date=2013-12-23 |website=Harvard VES Department}}</ref> Kim was nominated as Best New Director for the [[Grand Bell Awards]] (South Korea's Academy Awards), and ''Never Forever'' won the Jury Prize at the 2007 [[Deauville American Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chang |first=Justin |date=2007-01-25 |title=Never Forever |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/never-forever-1200510875/ |access-date= |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128044853/https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/never-forever-1200510875/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McDonaugh |first=Maitland |date=2008 |title=Movie Review of Never Forever |url=https://www.timeout.com/en_us/film/never-forever-2007 |url-status= |website=Time Out New York, issue 654}}{{deadlink|date=September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=2008-04-11 |title=If You Embrace the Body, the Heart Might Follow |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/movies/11neve.html |access-date= |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2023-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529184215/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/movies/11neve.html |url-status=live }}</ref>


=== ''Faces of Seoul'' (2009) ===
=== ''Faces of Seoul'' (2009) ===
Following a commission by the Korea Foundation, Kim returned to her documentary work and created a video essay called ''Faces of Seoul'', which "reveals Korea's capital as a dynamic place where these opposing concepts—language vs. image, tradition vs. modern, native knowledge vs. exotic encounter—rub against each other without yielding a single dominant perspective."<ref>This description is by Kim herself and can be found [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500706 here]</ref> Praised as a "palimpsest of time" by Seoul National University Professor Min Eun Kyung, ''Faces of Seoul'' combines both oriGynal and archival footage, including video taken by Kim herself of the infamous [[Sampoong Department Store]] collapse in 1995. ''Faces of Seoul'' premiered at the 2009 [[Venice Film Festival]], where Kim was invited to be a jury member. Subsequently, she was featured in ''[[L'Uomo Vogue]]'' as one of the "Talents of Venice".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.myfdb.com/editorials/48137-l-uomo-vogue-editorial-the-cast-Gyna-kim-september-2009/image/146911 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407062020/https://www.myfdb.com/editorials/48137-l-uomo-vogue-editorial-the-cast-Gyna-kim-september-2009/image/146911 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Following a commission by the Korea Foundation, Kim returned to her documentary work and created a video essay called ''Faces of Seoul'', which "reveals Korea's capital as a dynamic place where these opposing concepts—language vs. image, tradition vs. modern, native knowledge vs. exotic encounter—rub against each other without yielding a single dominant perspective."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faces of Seoul (2009) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500706/ |website=IMDb |access-date=2023-05-29 |archive-date=2023-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529184215/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500706/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Praised as a "palimpsest of time" by Seoul National University Professor Min Eun Kyung, ''Faces of Seoul'' combines both original and archival footage, including video taken by Kim herself of the infamous [[Sampoong Department Store]] collapse in 1995. ''Faces of Seoul'' premiered at the 2009 [[Venice Film Festival]], where Kim was invited to be a jury member. Subsequently, she was featured in ''[[L'Uomo Vogue]]'' as one of the "Talents of Venice".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.myfdb.com/editorials/48137-l-uomo-vogue-editorial-the-cast-Gyna-kim-september-2009/image/146911 |title=L'uomo Vogue Editorial the Cast: Gina Kim, September 2009 Shot #1 - MyFDB |access-date=2014-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407062020/https://www.myfdb.com/editorials/48137-l-uomo-vogue-editorial-the-cast-Gyna-kim-september-2009/image/146911 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


=== ''Final Recipe'' (2013) ===
=== ''Final Recipe'' (2013) ===
Kim's most recent film is 2013's ''[[Final Recipe]]'', a Thai-Korean co-production starring [[Michelle Yeoh]] and [[Henry Lau]]. It premiered at the 2013 [[San Sebastian Film Festival]] as the opening film for the Culinary Zinema section<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/final-recipe-film-review-1200670024/|title = San Sebastian Film Review: 'Final Recipe'|date = October 2013}}</ref> and was invited to be the opening film for the [[Hawaii International Film Festival]].<ref>http://program.hiff.org/films/detail/final_recipe_2013</ref> ''Final Recipe'' is the first English-language film made by an Asian director with all Asian stars, and it can be seen as Kim's response to any sense of a single dominating Asian culture, as well as Hollywood's past appropriations of Asia. It features actors and crew from all over the continent, such China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' commends Kim for how "she conjures a non-exotic piece out of a territory-trotting narrative, where every place is made to seem like home."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/final-recipe-san-sebastian-review-637372|title=Final Recipe: San Sebastian Review|date=26 September 2013}}</ref> ''Final Recipe'' also opened the [http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20148058#tab=filmStills Culinary Cinema section] of the 2014 [[Berlin Film Festival]].
Kim's most recent film is 2013's ''[[Final Recipe]]'', a Thai-Korean co-production starring [[Michelle Yeoh]] and [[Henry Lau]]. It premiered at the 2013 [[San Sebastian Film Festival]] as the opening film for the Culinary Zinema section<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weissberg |first=Jay |date=2013-10-01 |title=San Sebastian Film Review: 'Final Recipe' |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/final-recipe-film-review-1200670024/ |access-date= |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> and was invited to be the opening film for the [[Hawaii International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://program.hiff.org/films/detail/final_recipe_2013 |title=FINAL RECIPE - 2013 HIFF Fall Festival |website=program.hiff.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006005122/http://program.hiff.org/films/detail/final_recipe_2013 |archive-date=2013-10-06}}</ref> ''Final Recipe'' is the first English-language film made by an Asian director with all Asian stars, and it can be seen as Kim's response to any sense of a single dominating Asian culture, as well as Hollywood's past appropriations of Asia. It features actors and crew from all over the continent, such China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' commends Kim for how "she conjures a non-exotic piece out of a territory-trotting narrative, where every place is made to seem like home".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tsui |first=Clarence |date=2013-09-26 |title=Final Recipe: San Sebastian Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/final-recipe-san-sebastian-review-637372/ |access-date= |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529184215/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/final-recipe-san-sebastian-review-637372/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Final Recipe'' also opened the Culinary Cinema section of the 2014 [[Berlin Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Final Recipe - Culinary Cinema 2014 |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/2014/programme/20148058.html |access-date= |website=www.berlinale.de |language=en |archive-date=2023-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529184216/https://www.berlinale.de/en/2014/programme/20148058.html |url-status=live }}</ref>


In January 2015, ''Final Recipe'' was announced as the first official co-production between China and South Korea.
In January 2015, ''Final Recipe'' was announced as the first official co-production between China and South Korea.
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=== ''Bloodless'' (2017) ===
=== ''Bloodless'' (2017) ===
[[Bloodless]] is a 12 minute VR film that deals with camp town sex workers for US army stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the [[Dongducheon]] Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last hours of her life in the camp town, the VR film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience. This film was shot on location where the crime took place, bringing to light ongoing experiences at the 96 camp towns near or around the US military bases.
[[Bloodless]] is a 12 minute VR film that deals with camp town sex workers for US army personnel stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the [[Dongducheon]] Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last hours of her life in the camp town, the VR film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience. This film was shot on location where the crime took place, bringing to light ongoing experiences at the 96 camp towns near or around the US military bases.


Bloodless was awarded the Best VR Story Award at the 74th [[Venice Film Festival]].
Bloodless was awarded the Best VR Story Award at the 74th [[Venice Film Festival]].


=== ''Tearless'' (2021) ===
=== ''Tearless'' (2021) ===
''Tearless'' (2021) was awarded the ''Reflet d'Or'' for the best immersive work at the 27th [[Geneva International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Awards |url=https://2021.giff.ch/en/palmares/ |url-status=dead |access-date=8 December 2021 |website=GIFF 2021 |archive-date=8 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208145724/https://2021.giff.ch/en/palmares/ }}</ref>
''Tearless'' is a 360 3D immersive VR project on “US comfort women,”* forced by the South Korean government to serve US soldiers in camp towns outside the US military bases. Using immersive media technology, this project focuses on these women’s memories within a detainment center called “Monkey House”—a prison established by the South Korean government and staffed by the US military in the 1970s to isolate and treat comfort women with STDs.

Tearless was awarded the Reflet D'or for the best immersive work at the 27th Geneva International Film Festival.


== Academic and teaching career ==
== Academic and teaching career ==
Kim received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from [[Seoul National University]] in 1996 before moving to the United States to attend the [[California Institute of the Arts]] where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.ginakimfilms.com/biography|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Gina Kim|language=en-US}}</ref>
Kim received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from [[Seoul National University]] in 1996 before moving to the United States to attend the [[California Institute of the Arts]] where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1999.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Biography|url=http://www.ginakimfilms.com/biography|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Gina Kim|language=en-US}}</ref>


Between 2004–2007, and 2013–2014, Kim has taught film production and theory classes at [[Harvard University]],<ref name="ves" /> being the first Asian woman teaching in her department. Kim's Korean Cinema course was also the first of its kind taught at an Ivy League college, and in 2005 she curated the series "Visions from the South: South Korean Films from 1960–2003"<ref>http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2005spring/korean.html</ref> at the [[Harvard Film Archive]]. As acknowledgment of special contribution to the teaching of undergraduates at Harvard College, she was awarded a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University in October 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ginakimfilms.com/biography|title = Biography}}</ref>
Between 2004–2007, and 2013–2014, Kim has taught film production and theory classes at [[Harvard University]],<ref name="ves" /> being the first Asian woman teaching in her department. Kim's Korean Cinema course was also the first of its kind taught at an Ivy League college, and in 2005 she curated the series "Visions from the South: South Korean Films from 1960–2003" at the [[Harvard Film Archive]].<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005 |url=http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2005spring/korean.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180607184207/http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2005spring/korean.html |archive-date=2018-06-07 |access-date= |website=Harvard Film Archive}}</ref> As acknowledgment of special contribution to the teaching of undergraduates at Harvard College, she was awarded a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University in October 2014.<ref name=":0" />


Kim became a Professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2017.<ref name="tft" />
Kim became a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2017.<ref name="tft" />


== Publication ==
== Publication ==


In 2017, L'atelier des Cahiers published ''Séoul, Visages d'une Ville'', a multimedia photo book essay based on Kim's feature length documentary ''Faces of Seoul'' (2009).<ref>http://seoulvisagesduneville.weebly.com</ref>
In 2017, L'atelier des Cahiers published ''Séoul, Visages d'une Ville'', a multimedia photo book essay based on Kim's feature length documentary ''Faces of Seoul'' (2009).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Séoul, visages d'une ville |url=http://seoulvisagesduneville.weebly.com/ |access-date= |website=Séoul, visages d'une ville |language=fr-CA |archive-date=2023-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529184214/http://seoulvisagesduneville.weebly.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


In 2018 Kim was listed as one of the "Top Teachers in Film, TV" by [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Variety|last2=Staff|first2=Variety|date=2018-04-25|title=Entertainment Education: Top Teachers in Film, TV and More|url=https://variety.com/gallery/best-teachers-in-entertainment-film-tv/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2018 Kim was listed as one of the "Top Teachers in Film, TV" by [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |author= |last2= |first2= |date=2018-04-25 |title=Entertainment Education: Top Teachers in Film, TV and More |url=https://variety.com/gallery/best-teachers-in-entertainment-film-tv/ |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207001436/https://variety.com/gallery/best-teachers-in-entertainment-film-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==
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* Less Media Group - Moscow Museum of Modern Art
* Less Media Group - Moscow Museum of Modern Art
* Espronceda - Institute of Art & Culture
* Espronceda - Institute of Art & Culture
* Salon IKSV and Kolektif House (Levent and Maslak) “Euromersive Turkey”
* Salon IKSV and Kolektif House (Levent and Maslak) "Euromersive Turkey"
* Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center
* Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center
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* [[Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro]] "VFX RIO 2017"
* [[Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro]] "VFX RIO 2017"
* [[Museum of Tomorrow]] "VFX RIO 2017"
* [[Museum of Tomorrow]] "VFX RIO 2017"
* Ventana Sur "Trends VR"
* [[Ventana Sur]] "Trends VR"
* B3 Biennale
* B3 Biennale
* [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands]]
* [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands]]
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* Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


== Further Reading ==
== Further reading ==


* [https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2977388 "For director, video art opens door to world"]. [[Korea JoongAng Daily|Korea JoongAng Daily.]] September 10, 2013.
* [https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2977388 "For director, video art opens door to world"]. [[Korea JoongAng Daily]]. September 10, 2013.
* [http://anthemmagazine.com/vr-trooper-gina-kim/ "VR TROOPER: GINA KIM"]. Anthem Magazine. June 5, 2017.
* [http://anthemmagazine.com/vr-trooper-gina-kim/ "VR TROOPER: GINA KIM"]. Anthem Magazine. June 5, 2017.
* [https://filmmakermagazine.com/104182-sex-crimes-and-virtual-reality-best-vr-storytelling-of-2017-gina-kims-bloodless/#.Ya7rlNDMKUl "Sex Crimes and Virtual Reality: Best VR Storytelling of 2017, Gina Kim’s ''Bloodless"''] ''.''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker Magazine]]. December 22, 2017.
* [https://filmmakermagazine.com/104182-sex-crimes-and-virtual-reality-best-vr-storytelling-of-2017-gina-kims-bloodless/#.Ya7rlNDMKUl "Sex Crimes and Virtual Reality: Best VR Storytelling of 2017, Gina Kim's ''Bloodless"''] ''.''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker Magazine]]. December 22, 2017.
* [https://www.xrmust.com/xrmagazine/case-study-gina-kim-bloodless-tearless/ <nowiki>"[Case Study] Interview with Gina Kim on BLOODLESS and TEARLESS".</nowiki>] XRMust. September 2, 2021.
* [https://www.xrmust.com/xrmagazine/case-study-gina-kim-bloodless-tearless/ <nowiki>"[Case Study] Interview with Gina Kim on BLOODLESS and TEARLESS".</nowiki>] XRMust. September 2, 2021.


Latest revision as of 01:30, 3 December 2024

For the golfer, see Gina Kim (golfer).
Gina Kim
Born
김진아

(1973-12-31) 31 December 1973 (age 50)
Seoul, South Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
Occupation(s)film director, film producer, screenwriter, professor
Years active1995–Present

Gina Kim (born 1973, South Korea) is a filmmaker and academic. Kim's five feature-length films and short films have garnered acclaim through screenings at most major film festivals and at venues such as the MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian. According to Film Comment, Kim has "a terrific eye, a gift for near-wordless storytelling, a knack for generating a tense gliding rhythm between images and sounds, shots and scenes, and for yielding a quality of radiance in her actors".[1] Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes at Harvard University, being the first Asian woman teaching in her department (Visual and Environmental Studies). Kim was also a member of the Jury for the 66th Venice Film Festival and the Asian Pacific Screen Awards in 2009. Currently, Kim is a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.[2]

Film career

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Gina Kim's Video Diary (1995–2002)

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In 1995, upon moving to the United States for her MFA, Kim began shooting Gina Kim's Video Diary. In it, Kim realizes a vision of the modern female nomad—one who travels fluidly not only between Asia and America, but between multiple languages, film genres, and personal, local and cinematic histories. Screened at the Berlin Film Festival, Gina Kim's Video Diary was described in the catalogue as "an extremely personal account of one' woman's fears, fantasies and projections" that "provides the viewer with an unusual self-portrait that is deeply unsettling, moving and life-affirming", and now it is frequently cited as a classic in the genre of personal documentaries.

Invisible Light (2003)

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Following Gina Kim's Video Diary, Kim began making fiction films to further many of the same concerns as her documentary work. Invisible Light (2003) tracks the physical and psychological journeys of two Korean/Korean-American women, which led Cahiers du Cinéma to call it "a little block of feminine hardness and repressed anger". Senses of Cinema also asserts that "Kim's rigorous mise-en-scene matches the unflinching singularity of her vision." In addition to winning the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women's Film Festival, Invisible Light has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries.[3]

Never Forever (2007)

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Kim's next film, Never Forever, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for its Grand Jury Prize. Starring Vera Farmiga and Ha Jung-woo, Never Forever engages the generic conventions of melodrama to examine facets of gender, sexuality, race and class for both women and Koreans in America. Never Forever was the first co-production between the United States and South Korea, and it was commended by Variety for "Kim's highly sensitive camera", which "turns the film into a chamber-piece hushed eroticism and surprising narrative grip". Martin Scorsese has also called the film, "A moving experience [in which] the performances are wonderful and touching, and the style...intense and very precise."[4] Kim was nominated as Best New Director for the Grand Bell Awards (South Korea's Academy Awards), and Never Forever won the Jury Prize at the 2007 Deauville American Film Festival.[5][6][7]

Faces of Seoul (2009)

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Following a commission by the Korea Foundation, Kim returned to her documentary work and created a video essay called Faces of Seoul, which "reveals Korea's capital as a dynamic place where these opposing concepts—language vs. image, tradition vs. modern, native knowledge vs. exotic encounter—rub against each other without yielding a single dominant perspective."[8] Praised as a "palimpsest of time" by Seoul National University Professor Min Eun Kyung, Faces of Seoul combines both original and archival footage, including video taken by Kim herself of the infamous Sampoong Department Store collapse in 1995. Faces of Seoul premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, where Kim was invited to be a jury member. Subsequently, she was featured in L'Uomo Vogue as one of the "Talents of Venice".[9]

Final Recipe (2013)

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Kim's most recent film is 2013's Final Recipe, a Thai-Korean co-production starring Michelle Yeoh and Henry Lau. It premiered at the 2013 San Sebastian Film Festival as the opening film for the Culinary Zinema section[10] and was invited to be the opening film for the Hawaii International Film Festival.[11] Final Recipe is the first English-language film made by an Asian director with all Asian stars, and it can be seen as Kim's response to any sense of a single dominating Asian culture, as well as Hollywood's past appropriations of Asia. It features actors and crew from all over the continent, such China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. The Hollywood Reporter commends Kim for how "she conjures a non-exotic piece out of a territory-trotting narrative, where every place is made to seem like home".[12] Final Recipe also opened the Culinary Cinema section of the 2014 Berlin Film Festival.[13]

In January 2015, Final Recipe was announced as the first official co-production between China and South Korea.

The film was wide released in China on August 26, 2016 and opened on 3,240 theaters nationwide. The film will be released in the US and South Korea in 2017.

Bloodless (2017)

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Bloodless is a 12 minute VR film that deals with camp town sex workers for US army personnel stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the Dongducheon Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last hours of her life in the camp town, the VR film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience. This film was shot on location where the crime took place, bringing to light ongoing experiences at the 96 camp towns near or around the US military bases.

Bloodless was awarded the Best VR Story Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival.

Tearless (2021)

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Tearless (2021) was awarded the Reflet d'Or for the best immersive work at the 27th Geneva International Film Festival.[14]

Academic and teaching career

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Kim received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Seoul National University in 1996 before moving to the United States to attend the California Institute of the Arts where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1999.[15]

Between 2004–2007, and 2013–2014, Kim has taught film production and theory classes at Harvard University,[4] being the first Asian woman teaching in her department. Kim's Korean Cinema course was also the first of its kind taught at an Ivy League college, and in 2005 she curated the series "Visions from the South: South Korean Films from 1960–2003" at the Harvard Film Archive.[16] As acknowledgment of special contribution to the teaching of undergraduates at Harvard College, she was awarded a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University in October 2014.[15]

Kim became a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2017.[2]

Publication

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In 2017, L'atelier des Cahiers published Séoul, Visages d'une Ville, a multimedia photo book essay based on Kim's feature length documentary Faces of Seoul (2009).[17]

In 2018 Kim was listed as one of the "Top Teachers in Film, TV" by Variety magazine.[18]

Filmography

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Year Title Director Writer Producer Festivals Special Screenings Awards
2021 Tearless (short) Yes Yes Yes
  • Centre PHI
  • Sandman Studios, "Sandbox Immersive Festival"
  • MC2:Grenoble
  • Centquatre-Paris
  • Invr.Space
  • MEET Digital Culture Center
  • Fandazione Giacomo Brodolini - Laboratorio Aperto Di Modena
  • Museo Nazionale del Cinema
  • M9 - Museum of the 20th Century
  • Eye Filmmuseum
  • Less Media Group - Moscow Museum of Modern Art
  • Espronceda - Institute of Art & Culture
  • Salon IKSV and Kolektif House (Levent and Maslak) "Euromersive Turkey"
  • Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center
  • Recipient of Best Immersive Work, Geneva International Film Festival 2021
2017 Bloodless Yes Yes Yes
2013 Final Recipe Yes Yes Yes
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
2009 Faces of Seoul Yes Yes
  • Recipient of Korea Foundation Media Fellowship
2007 Never Forever Yes Yes
  • Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
  • Recipient of the Special Jury Prize, Deauville American Film Festival
  • Nominated for Best New Director, Choonsa Award
  • Nominated for Best New Director, Grand Bell Award, Korea (Dae-jong Award)
  • Recipient of LEF Moving Image Fellowship
  • Recipient of Harvard Film Study Center Fellowship
2003 Invisible Light Yes Yes Yes
  • Special Jury Award, Seoul Women's Film Festival
  • Recipient of KOFIC (Korean Film Council) production and distribution awards
  • Recipient of Coreana Production Fellowship
2002 Gina Kim's Video Diary Yes Yes
  • Gallery Wooduk (Seoul) – Self-portrait exhibition
  • Indievideo Archive (Seoul) – Traces of Everyday film festival
  • Tokyo Cinema Jukyu (Tokyo) – "Desires Within Image – Featuring Gina Kim's Video Diary" special screening
2001 Morning Becomes Eclectic (short)
  • Shedalle Art Space (Zurich) – Slow exhibition
1999 Empty House (short)
  • Seoul International Documentary Film Festival
  • Visual Communications LA Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival (Directors Guild of America)
  • PIA Film Festival – Best Korean Short Films Selection (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
  • Seoul Women's Film Festival
  • Honorable Mention, Seoul Women's Film Festival
1998 Flying Appetite (short)
  • Post-colonial Classics of Korean Cinema Festival (UC Irvine)
1997 Door (short)
1996 Walking (short)
1995 Passing Eyes (short)
1995 The Picture I Draw (short)
1995 Ok Man, This Is Your World (short)
1995 Heroine (short)

References

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  1. ^ Seid, Steve. "BAM/PFA - Film Programs". University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
  2. ^ a b "Gina Kim". UCLA School of TFT. 4 August 2014. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Invisible Light (2003)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  4. ^ a b "VES Faculty - Gina Kim". Harvard VES Department. Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  5. ^ Chang, Justin (2007-01-25). "Never Forever". Variety. Archived from the original on 2023-01-28.
  6. ^ McDonaugh, Maitland (2008). "Movie Review of Never Forever". Time Out New York, issue 654.[dead link‍]
  7. ^ Holden, Stephen (2008-04-11). "If You Embrace the Body, the Heart Might Follow". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2023-05-29.
  8. ^ "Faces of Seoul (2009)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2023-05-29. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  9. ^ "L'uomo Vogue Editorial the Cast: Gina Kim, September 2009 Shot #1 - MyFDB". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-02.
  10. ^ Weissberg, Jay (2013-10-01). "San Sebastian Film Review: 'Final Recipe'". Variety.
  11. ^ "FINAL RECIPE - 2013 HIFF Fall Festival". program.hiff.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-06.
  12. ^ Tsui, Clarence (2013-09-26). "Final Recipe: San Sebastian Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2023-05-29.
  13. ^ "Final Recipe - Culinary Cinema 2014". www.berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 2023-05-29.
  14. ^ "Awards". GIFF 2021. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  15. ^ a b "Biography". Gina Kim. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  16. ^ "Visions from the South: Korean Cinema 1960-2005". Harvard Film Archive. Archived from the original on 2018-06-07.
  17. ^ "Séoul, visages d'une ville". Séoul, visages d'une ville (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 2023-05-29.
  18. ^ "Entertainment Education: Top Teachers in Film, TV and More". Variety. 2018-04-25. Archived from the original on 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2021-12-07.

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