Kogonada
- Directing
- Seoul, South Korea
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Doors of Bresson · Director
- Zi · Director, Producer
- A Big Bold Beautiful Journey · Director, Executive producer
- The Acolyte · Director
- Art-House America: Austin Film Society · Self
- Pachinko · Director, Executive producer
- After Yang · Editing, Writer
- Columbus Story · Director
- Once There Was Everything · Director
- Columbus · Writer, Director
- What Is Neorealism? · Director
- Way of Ozu · Director
- Godard in Fragments · Director
- The Way of Folk · Director, Editorial Staff
- Restoring the Apu Trilogy · Director
- Dreams of Cinema · Narrator, Editing
- Elemental · Editing, Director
- Criterion Designs · Director
- Trick or Truth · Director
- Hands of Bresson · Director
- Linklater: On Cinema and Time · Director
- The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu · Director
- BIFA: 15 Years · Director
- Lunch Line · Director
- Young Arabs · Director, Cinematography