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| Born | 김진아 31 December 1973 |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Occupation(s) | film director, film producer, screenwriter, professor |
| Years active | 1995–Present |
Gina Kim (born 1973, South Korea) is a filmmaker and academic. Her work spans from personal essay films Gina Kim's Video Diary (2001) and Faces of Seoul (2009), to international studio co-productions Never Forever (2007) and Final Recipe (2013), to VR pieces as with her recent film trilogy about Korean comfort women to the US military – Bloodless (2017), Tearless (2021), Comfortless (2023).
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]
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. [2]
While studying abroad in the US, Kim suffered from intense isolation and anorexia, and the footage of this personal journey culminated into Gina Kim’s Video Diary. [3] Part video performance, part personal diary, the film was shot over a six year period, [4] and the experimental documentary premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival's Forum in 2003. [5]
Her film Invisible Light (2003) won the special award at the 2004 Seoul Women's Film Festival, and has been screened at more than 23 film festivals and in over 15 countries. [6] Kim's next film, Never Forever won the Jury Prize at the 2007 Deauville American Film Festival. [7] [8] [9]
Kim served on the jury for the 66th Venice Film Festival and the Asian Pacific Screen Awards in 2009.
Faces of Seoul premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. She was later named in L'Uomo Vogue as one of the "Talents of Venice". [10] Her 2013 film Final Recipe also opened the Culinary Cinema section of the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. [11]
Tearless (2021) was awarded the Reflet d'Or for the best immersive work at the 27th Geneva International Film Festival. [12]
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). [13]
Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes at Harvard University, [14] the first Asian woman to do so.
She curated the series "Visions from the South: South Korean Films from 1960–2003" at the Harvard Film Archive. [15] 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. [2]
Kim became a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2017. [16]
In 2018 Kim was listed as one of the "Top Teachers in Film, TV" by Variety magazine. [17]
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| 2023 | Comfortless | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| 2021 | Tearless (short) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| 2017 | Bloodless | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| 2013 | Final Recipe | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| 2009 | Faces of Seoul | Yes | Yes |
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| 2007 | Never Forever | Yes | Yes |
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| 2003 | Invisible Light | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| 2002 | Gina Kim's Video Diary | Yes | Yes |
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| 2001 | Morning Becomes Eclectic (short) |
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| 1999 | Empty House (short) |
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| 1998 | Flying Appetite (short) |
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| 1997 | Door (short) |
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| 1996 | Walking (short) | ||||||
| 1995 | Passing Eyes (short) | ||||||
| 1995 | The Picture I Draw (short) | ||||||
| 1995 | Ok Man, This Is Your World (short) | ||||||
| 1995 | Heroine (short) | ||||||
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