Critique & Studio

In Pursuit of Greatness MFA Thesis Film — 20 min, 10 Episodes   In Pursuit of Greatness is a 20-minute animated research film structured as ten episodic vignettes. Created using After Effects, Blender 3D,...

In October 1968, 120 members of the North Korean Commandos landed in the Gangwon Province to create a guerilla base in the mountain region of South Korea. They entered and occupied villages and indoctrinated the villagers.

Theme: Manufactured Martyrdom Episode 2 examines how a real historical tragedy was transformed into a tool of national myth-making and ideological conditioning. As a child in South Korea, I was required to watch a...

Indeed, it is the path to lethal traps of the oxymoron, hypocrisy, and the paradox. I find that absurdity is part of the basic nature of most political “stories.” To avoid missteps in the multi-dimensional and complicated nature of the events I created, I also

I grew up hearing a plethora of nationalistic rhetoric, such as “I should be proud of being a member of this homogeneous society.” I was born three years before president Park Chung-Hee was assassinated in 1979.

I created a world based on my emotional memory of childhood. A memory that has always stuck with me from my past is the presence of dust. It was dusty, it was always dusty. In towns, bulldozers created dust while skinning out vegetation to build roads and bridges.

Theme: The Construction of the (Other) Enemy Episode 5 introduces the necessary counterpart to nationalist identity: the imagined “other.” Within the fictional system of the film, the Red People represent the externalized threat required...

Theme: Ideology Without Borders Episode 7 extends the fictional system of Yellow Nationalism beyond its historical origins. During the development of this film, the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia reintroduced torch-lit marches...

Theme: Recognition and Moral Reorientation After mapping the architecture of fear, trauma, power, and exclusion, Episode 8 shifts the axis of the film. This chapter introduces love — not as sentimentality, but as resistance...

Theme: Narrative as Rehabilitation Episode 9 examines how ideology sustains itself through narrative reframing. After violence, after exclusion, after humiliation — the system does not apologize. It reinterprets. This episode introduces the figure of...