Kogonada

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Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Gender: Male

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).

Credits

Year Title
2026-03-05 Doors of Bresson
2026-01-24 Zi
2025-09-17 A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
2022-03-04 After Yang
2019-03-26 Columbus Story
2017-08-14 Once There Was Everything
2017-08-04 Columbus
2017-07-07 What Is Neorealism?
2016-02-29 Way of Ozu
2016-02-10 Godard in Fragments
2016-01-19 The Way of Folk
2015-11-17 Restoring the Apu Trilogy
2015-08-18 Dreams of Cinema
2015-06-15 Elemental
2014-11-20 Criterion Designs
2014-10-30 Trick or Truth
2014-06-17 Hands of Bresson
2013-12-04 Linklater: On Cinema and Time
2013-01-02 BIFA: 15 Years
2010-05-18 Lunch Line
2008-06-18 Young Arabs