Person
Kogonada
Directing · Seoul, South Korea
Biography
Park Joong Eun (Korean: 박중은), known professionally as Kogonada, is a South Korean-born American filmmaker. He is known for his video essays that analyze the content, form, and structure of various films and television series. The essays frequently use narration and editing as lenses and highlight a director's aesthetic. Kogonada regularly contributes to Sight & Sound and is often commissioned by The Criterion Collection to create supplemental videos for its home video releases. He has also written, directed and edited the feature films Columbus (2017) and After Yang (2021). He also directed two episodes of the Star Wars Disney+ series The Acolyte (2024).
Known for
Pachinko
Executive Producer
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Director
The Acolyte
Director
Columbus
Writer
Zi
Director
After Yang
Editor
The Eye & the Beholder
Director
Linklater: On Cinema and Time
Director
Columbus Story
Director
Lunch Line
Director
Filmography
- 2026Doors of BressonDirector
- 2026ZiDirector
- 2025A Big Bold Beautiful JourneyDirector
- 2024The AcolyteDirector
- 2023Art-House America: Austin Film SocietySelf
- 2022PachinkoExecutive Producer
- 2022After YangEditor
- 2019Columbus StoryDirector
- 2017Once There Was EverythingDirector
- 2017ColumbusWriter
- 2017What Is Neorealism?Director
- 2017Wes Anderson: From AboveEditor
- 2016Way of OzuDirector
- 2016Godard in FragmentsDirector
- 2016The Way of FolkDirector
- 2015Restoring the Apu TrilogyDirector
- 2015Dreams of CinemaNarrator
- 2015ElementalEditor
- 2015On SolaceNarrator
- 2015Mirrors of BergmanEditor
- 2015Auteur in SpaceDirector
- 2014Criterion DesignsDirector
- 2014Trick or TruthDirector
- 2014The Eye & the BeholderDirector
- 2014Eyes of HitchcockDirector
- 2014Hands of BressonDirector
- 2014Wes Anderson: CenteredEditor
- 2013Linklater: On Cinema and TimeDirector
- 2013Malick: Fire & WaterEditor
- 2013The World According to Koreeda HirokazuEditor
- 2013BIFA: 15 YearsDirector
- 2013Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the HillDirector
- 2012Ozu: PassagewaysDirector
- 2012Stanley Kubrick: One-Point PerspectiveDirector
- 2012Sounds of AronofskyDirector
- 2012Tarantino: From BelowEditor
- 2010Lunch LineDirector
- 2008Young ArabsDirector
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