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Kogonada

Kogonada

Director · Seoul, South Korea

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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).

Directed

  1. The Acolyte (2024) — Director
  2. After Yang (2022) — Director
  3. Columbus (2017) — Director
  4. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) — Director
  5. Pachinko (2022) — Director
  6. Linklater: On Cinema and Time (2013) — Director
  7. Wes Anderson: Centered (2014) — Director
  8. What Is Neorealism? (2017) — Director
  9. Ozu: Passageways (2012) — Director
  10. Hands of Bresson (2014) — Director
  11. Eyes of Hitchcock (2014) — Director
  12. Auteur in Space (2015) — Director
  13. Way of Ozu (2016) — Director
  14. Mirrors of Bergman (2015) — Director
  15. Malick: Fire & Water (2013) — Director
  16. Tarantino: From Below (2012) — Director
  17. The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu (2013) — Director
  18. Trick or Truth (2014) — Director
  19. Sounds of Aronofsky (2012) — Director
  20. Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the Hill (2013) — Director
  21. Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective (2012) — Director
  22. Godard in Fragments (2016) — Director
  23. Wes Anderson: From Above (2017) — Director
  24. BIFA: 15 Years (2013) — Director
  25. Once There Was Everything (2017) — Director
  26. Restoring the Apu Trilogy (2015) — Director
  27. On Solace (2015) — Director
  28. Lunch Line (2010) — Director
  29. The Way of Folk (2016) — Director
  30. Criterion Designs (2014) — Director
  31. Elemental (2015) — Director
  32. Dreams of Cinema (2015) — Director
  33. The Eye & the Beholder (2014) — Director
  34. Zi (2026) — Director
  35. Columbus Story (2019) — Director
  36. Young Arabs (2008) — Director
  37. Doors of Bresson (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. On Solace (2015) — Narrator
  2. Dreams of Cinema (2015) — Narrator
  3. Art-House America: Austin Film Society (2023) — Self