JOONHEE MYUNG
Film & Video
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Film was the first medium through which Joonhee Myung began her artistic journey in 2013. Starting with documentary, her practice gradually shifted toward experimental video and moving images, where image, sound, and movement became tools for exploring memory, ecology, and presence. Her films, often fluid and dreamlike, form a vital strand of her multidisciplinary approach, resonating with her drawings, photographs, and texts.
As of recent, we the advent of AI technology, she has also expanded into AI-based experiments, testing how new technologies can intersect with hand-drawn illustration, video, and sound. These works continue her long-standing interest in the thresholds between human and nonhuman, memory and absence, stillness and motion, carrying her practice into yet another evolving frontier.
Single Channel Video, 2 min 4 sec, 2025 At the heart of this video is a question that resists easy answers: What does it mean for nature to return? This piece is both a farewell and a homecoming. An inquiry into boundary dwelling species that return to places of memory. It was made with original iphone found footages, my series of year long memos and poems, Sora AI, Logic Pro, Riffusion and Instagram Reel edits and Final Cut Pro. It's a "remix" or '뽕짝' in Korean of two different videos combined to sound like one visual remix.
🎼 Memory Glitch & Verses Beyond Us (Reprise), 2025
🎼 Intentionally Left Blank (Sin Titulo), 2024
Single Channel Video, 10 min 28 sec, 2024
J disappears one day and is found in Chile. She misses making films and decides to use her iphone mini and free app for editing. One year of Kino Izvestiyas show her life, internal landscape of a woman falling apart in an even more tumultuous social surrounding. Poetry and found footage reveal another side of the story.
Director, producer, writer, cinematography, editing: Joonhee Myung
Sound Effects and Main Title Music: ILB Arirang Electronic Remix “Durumi” by JUNOS
IG: @joon_films_2022 @joon_music_2022
*Song introduced in Issue 3 of THE MIXTAPE REVIEW
Screenings: Winner of Audience Award
-VisualcontainerTV, Italy, 2025 [online worldwide] Acess Website
-Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, Canada, 2024 [online worldwide] Access Website
🎼 Bird Spirit (Version '24), 2024
Single Channel Video, 1 min 50 sec, 2024
Is home still relevant today as it was in 2013 when I first started making films?
Screenings:
-Artlogic Space, Seoul, Korea, 2024
🎼 Born 본
Single Channel Video, 1 min 31 sec, 2022
Did the butterfly dream of me or me of the butterfly?
Screenings
🎼 Interludes 인터류즈
Single Channel Video, 5 min 44 sec, 2019
A long plane ride leaves space for imagination
Screenings:
-Electric Cinema Short Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, 2019
Sky Above Great Wind 공 空
Single Channel Video, 6 min 43 sec, 2016
One day a woman returns to her little hut and finds all her possessions stolen. Instead of grudging, she writes a poem.
Screenings :
-Paseo Por Corea, INACAP, Santiago, Chile, 2018
-Force of Stillness, Rubin Museum, NYC, USA, 2016
Bird Spirit 하늘을 나는 물고기 (2025 Version)
Single Channel Video, 3 min 40 sec, 2014
What is a real home to a traveler?
Screenings:
-Konhas Media Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2014
🎼 심연: Profundis Part TWO
Single Channel Video, 1min 07sec, 2023
It is found and felt in the fragments of memory. I love the flow of unconsciousness, movement, the bumpy three-dimensional effect of Film, flowing thoughts, feelings, and found footage picked up here and there. I wonder what story it will tell through the sensations coming through my hands.
🎼 Hometown, 터전
Single Channel Video, 9 min 44 sec, 2022
When your home is all you have got.
Screenings:
-Vitafest, Santiago, Chile, 2022
-Superpresent Magazine, Spring Issue, 2025
Peace Reprise 다시, 평화
Single Channel Video, 3 min 11 sec, 2025
A child’s solitary flight across borders becomes a mirror for the fractured geographies within us. Images of displacement dissolve into fragments of memory, language, and song, each piece colliding, refracting, and returning as a fragile chorus. Peace Reprise asks whether migration and belonging, conflict and refuge, can converge in the shared horizon of a future imagined.
-Projet Betula (Out of the Blue Cinema), Paris, France, 2025
🎼 The Escape - Interludes Pt. Two
Single Channel Video, 2min 20sec, 2023
Destiny’s bells hale the coming day of emancipation of liberation for the sick the lonely and the bitter tears under the dark abyss of solitude and in profound loneliness we see in clarity in solitude we stand together whilst the day of the second coming will be upon us and we will be united again.
Intangible Asset MIIN BYULGOK 미인별곡
Single Channel Video, 7 min 11 sec, 2015
A visit to Jongmyo turns into a magical space and time.
Screenings: Winner of Encouragment Award
-International Intangible Heritage Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea, 2019 (re-edited)
-Paseo Por Corea, INACAP, Santiago, Chile, 2018
🎼 어떤 상상: Some Imagination
Single Channel Video, 1 min 21 sec, 2024
Imagining better hope for the future.
🎼 심연: Profundis Part THREE 'Kaleidoscope of Love'
Single Channel Video, 1min 51sec, 2023
Kalediscope of Love. Colorful, Passionate and in Love. 사랑의 만화경.
잎사귀 노래: Leaf Song / Cancion de Hojas
Single Channel Video, 41 seconds, 2024
A companion species are we.
Videos marked with 🎼 indicate that the author also composed the film’s score and sound.