BIRDISCRYINGBIRDISSINGING (2025)

This is an ongoing project in collaboration with my father. It exists within the tension between documentation and mythmaking—tracing the historical lineage of the 38th parallel partition and the ancient myths that foreshadow the longing from separation. The film is shot in two points, triangulating  me and my father’s bodies; the geographical location of Panmunjom on the DMZ, a highly tourist place; and a remote island that holds they myth of the ginko trees. 

The film follows my father near the border, the closest he has ever been since crossing the partition into the south as a child. During the planning of the film, he expressed that he wanted to travel to the island so that we could capture both the mythologies and militarization of the everyday.

PERFORMANCE OF 백두산MOUNT PAEKTU #9 (2024)

The story of Dangun is an ancient creation myth of the peninsula’s origin. Ungnyeo is the bear, along with a tiger, who prayed to the king Hwanung to become human. The king said that if they were stay in the cave, eating only mugworts and garlic, for 100 days, he would grant their wish. Only the bair remained and thus, transformed into a woman. 

She later prayed for a child, and so Hwangung felt deeply, and they soon gave birth to a son, Dangun. 

FROM WHAT (통일T’ONGIL) I FORGOTTEN (2023)
Performer: Estefania Cho; Hair and Sound Production: Sev Croxie

a response to my grandmother's passing; the beginning of the mourning ceremony.