Person
Heehyun Choi
Directing
Biography
Heehyun Choi is a moving image artist and educator from Seoul, South Korea, whose practice is grounded on the interest in the physicality and virtuality in projected images, the unseen beings outside the camera frame, and the subjectivity and variability of the act of seeing. Choi received her MFA in Film & Video at California Institute of the Arts. Her films have been screened internationally including at 25 FPS Festival, Images Festival, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), and Ann Arbor Film Festival where she received the Mariam Ghani Juror Award. She is the receipient of WNDX x NIMAC Experimental Moving Image Award, AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, Alison Doerner Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking, and The Lightning Fund by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Known for
A Thousand Years Ago
Voice
Birdsaver Report Volume 1
Director
And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That Was
Editor
Our Cave
Director
A Dark Room
Director
A Real Christmas
Co-Editor
The Blue Curtain
Director
This Isn't What It Appears
Director
Origami Tutorial
Director
The Exhausted
Narrator
Filmography
- 2025A Real ChristmasCo-Editor
- 2025And the Moon Sets Over the Temple That WasEditor
- 2025A Dark RoomDirector
- 2024Our CaveDirector
- 2022This Isn't What It AppearsDirector
- 2022A Thousand Years AgoVoice
- 2022The ExhaustedNarrator
- 2021Birdsaver Report Volume 2Director
- 2021Birdsaver Report Volume 2 (버드세이버 보고서 제 2장)Director
- 2020The Blue CurtainDirector
- 2020Birdsaver Report Volume 1Director
- 2020Between The Eyes 2Director
- 2019Origami TutorialDirector
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