Person
Kim Hyun-seok
Camera
Biography
KIM Hyun-seok is a new cinematographer who is praised for capturing sadness so beautiful as to be frightening in just two films, Poetry(2010) and A Brand New Life(2009). That Poetry is the most recent film by [LEE Chang-dong] and A Brand New Life by [Ounie Lecomte] was produced by LEE are the commonality that ties him to the two films. KIM is credited for successfully condensing beauty and violence in both of the films. While a directors directing drives the making of a film, KIMs camera shows a restrained gaze at the characters at an optimal distance, leaving an impression that cannot be easily passed over. The cool blue light that filled up the frames of Poetry and the afterglow left behind indifferently by his camerawork in A Brand New Life make KIMs upcoming images that much more anticipated.
Known for

The Sun Rises on Us All
Director of Photography

Green Night
Additional Director of Photography

A Girl at My Door
Director of Photography

A Brand New Life
Director of Photography

Poetry
Director of Photography

So Long, My Son
Director of Photography

Beyond Utopia
Director of Photography

Tenderly
Director of Photography

The Sound of a Flower
Director of Photography

Me and Me
Director of Photography
Filmography
- 2025The Sun Rises on Us AllDirector of Photography
- 2025Above the DustDirector of Photography
- 2023Green NightAdditional Director of Photography
- 2023Beyond UtopiaDirector of Photography
- 2020Me and MeDirector of Photography
- 2019Kim-GunDirector of Photography
- 2019So Long, My SonDirector of Photography
- 2015The Sound of a FlowerDirector of Photography
- 2014Seoul LifeDirector of Photography
- 2014Romance in SeoulDirector of Photography
- 2014A Girl at My DoorDirector of Photography
- 2013TenderlyDirector of Photography
- 2010PoetryDirector of Photography
- 2009A Brand New LifeDirector of Photography
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