Jung Yoon-suk
Directing
Biography
Jung Yoon-suk (born on July 28, 1981 ) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Jung won the BIFF Mecenat Award at BIFF, NETPAC at the Berlinale 2014, and New Vision at SITGES 2014 for his first feature documentary, Non-fiction Diary (2013). His second feature, Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (2016), was invited to Rotterdam and won the Wildflower Film Awards Grand Prize, the Muju Film Festival Grand Prize, and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival′s New Asian Currents Special Prize. He also won the Artist of the Year at the 2020 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. His third feature documentary, Lash, was released in 2022. Jung majored in Plastic Arts at the Korea National University of Arts and Documentary in Graduate school of Korea National University of Arts. JUNG Yoon-suk, currently an artist and a director, have been steadily asking questions about 'publicness' of a state and society through the form of documentary and art. He has been showing his works through domestic and foreign film festivals and exhibitions such as 2010 Vancouver Film Festival, 2011 Busan International Film Festival, and 2012 Gwangju Biennale.
Known For
An exploration of different personas in an eclectic collection of four works by critically acclaimed Korean directors.
Persona
"Dear Jinri" explores the daily concerns and thoughts of actress and singer Sulli, whose real name is Choi Jinri, where she talks about her childhood, career and more in this interview she gave in 2019.
Dear Jinri
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Project 30
What happened in Korean society in the 1990s? The film starts with the Jijon-pa (Supreme Gangsters) case. The shocking story is narrated through the discussion by the two detectives who arrested the gangsters, of details of the roundup, data screens, and the death sentence. Nevertheless, Nonfiction Diary’s focus is not on the crime story. Starting from Jijon-pa onwards, the film reflects on the 1990s, when Korea digressed into contemporary history. The Seongsu Bridge and the Sampoong Department Store’s collapses are recalled, followed by the then-government’s punishment of the May 18 Uprising leaders, revealing the Korean legal system’s death penalty status, touching on political and power issues. The audience is reminded that today, 2013, is an extension of that same flow.
Non Fiction Diary
Grindcore punks Bamseom Pirates make music suitable for a sick society.
Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno
Gangjeong Village, located at the southernmost part of Jeju Island's Seogwipo City, is in the true sense a 'breathtaking land of water.' In this film, eight directors independently yet collaboratively orchestrate a clever and humorous "mission" at this place where the groundwork for building a naval military base is in progress.
Jam Docu GangJeong
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IKUE
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The Home of Stars
An international project that spans across Korea, China, and Japan, Lash challenges viewers to think fundamentally about the human existence and humanity. The three chapters titled “Messenger,” “Message,” and “Messiah” feature workers of a Chinese sex doll factory, a politician dreaming of innovating the Japanese political system with AI robots, and a middle-aged Japanese man living with a sex doll.
Lash
Convicted as a rioter rather than a documentarian at the Western District Court, what did the director capture? A documentary reflection following the people's gaze that never stopped, even as the world collapsed.