Jeong Da-hee
Directing
Biography
Jeong Dahee is a Korean animation director based in Seoul. She was educated at Hongik University in Seoul and got a BA in Communication Design. Went to Paris and got a Master’s in Animation at the ENSAD. Her first film, Man on the Chair (2014), was presented at the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival, won the Cristal Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The Empty (2016) won the Grand Prix at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and was screened at over 100 film festivals around the world. She was invited to the animation residency at Fontevraud Abbey, France in 2013 and in 2017, also invited to the mentoring residency at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Canada in 2017. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2018.
Known For
“Man on the chair” is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.
Man on the Chair
In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games with woman’s memories.
The Empty
NEF Animation (nefanimation.fr) and Fontevraud Abbey are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fontevraud International Writing Residency for Animated Film in October 2017. A book and DVD set is being released for the occasion, featuring fifteen animated short films written during residencies at Fontevraud Abbey. Fifteen films, fifteen perspectives, fifteen worlds, presented in a video medley lasting a few minutes.
10 ans de résidence à l'Abbaye de Fontevraud
In the space of 10 minutes, the African baobab tree grows 0.008 mm, the fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can run 12 km, and the Earth travels 18,000 km around the Sun. "Movements" is a 10-minute film which I drew at a rate of 2 seconds of animation per day. We are all walking, seeing, working, running, and stopping together.
Movements
When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, shirts and pants step outside the closet, transforming into living entities. In the world of the film, everyone exists solely as clothes, wandering into the streets bodiless and faceless. But the routine of this strange place is disrupted one day when a human child with flesh and bones appears, turning their everyday existence upside down.
Society of Clothes
A monk carves one thousand Buddha statues throughout the year to enter nirvana.
One Thousand Buddhas
Everyday, the main character, who is confined in a dark room, sees sunlight coming through the window: he flees from the closed place to an infinite one.
The Black Room
The body is used to create the alphabet.
Reflection Typo
A collection of stories which explore the differences and resemblances between the life cycles of trees and humans.