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The film

According to the producer, Wan-soon lives in Jeju and draws at night. The project brings her long-unspoken memories into drawings and animation. Jude Kang directs; Studio Teacup is the Korean producer.

The producer and studio

Producer Jeremy Joey also works with Korean independent-documentary networks and community screenings. IFFR’s 2026 profile describes Studio Teacup, founded in 2021, as a Seoul-based company with a Jeju branch working at the boundary between documentary and animation.

The trailer

The trailer opens on a portrait and moves early on to an aerial view of a coastal village. It sets the woman beside the place she has lived and shows filmed landscapes giving way to drawn images.

Fund selection

BIFF’s Asian Cinema Fund lists the project among its 2026 documentary-fund selections. The selection does not mean a public screening or release has been set.

Archive pick

The 3-minute-53-second trailer was uploaded December 11, 2025. It is not the complete film or a notice of current screenings.

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The reel plays with the distance between people and the space around them. Close views of faces give way to wider rooms. Window light and wooden railings divide the image and show the camera’s choices.

Meet the Creator

Kim is a South Korean-born filmmaker based in Los Angeles. On Vimeo he describes the reel as a collection of film, commercial and music-video work he directed or shot.

Watch in Its Frame

Wide and narrower compositions alternate inside the same player. The black margins are part of the original and preserve each shot’s shape. Viewed uncropped, the arrangement of people, light and space stays intact.

Source Note

Vimeo currently titles it “2026 REEL - DAEIL KIM”; his website labels the same video “2025 Reel.” Vimeo’s initial upload record dates to January 2024. The revision date and the production year of each shot are unverified.

Why Watch

Alongside the figure’s movement, the materials stand out: the fibers of the flames, folds in the clothes and drawings on hanging fabric. The work translates emotion after loss into brief movement and animation.

The People Behind It

Hwang directed the official video for Naojusung, with choreography by Yuna Kim and costumes by KwangKyeong Kim. The festival record lists drawing, clay and puppets among its techniques.

Where It Fits

The song appears on Naojusung’s album Sayang, released April 22, 2025. The 2025 work is presented here through Hwang’s own Vimeo upload; it is not a new release or a current screening.

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The trailer lingers on the objects in the room. A closed door opens; a figure carries a rounded case and a picture past it. As things move, the space they leave becomes visible, and in the grey, charcoal-like texture even a small change of position alters the scene.

Korean animation director Jeong Dahee says her films grow out of questions from everyday life. She worked in advertising, studied animation in Paris and has worked independently as a director and producer since 2013. Here she approaches presence and loss through the door, walls and objects of a room.

Watch For

The door and the picture, more than the figure, drive the scenes. The trailer turns on how a room changes once an object leaves the frame.

About the Work

The player contains the director’s roughly 65-second trailer for the 2016 film. The full work runs 9 minutes 27 seconds and combines painting on paper with 2D computer animation. It was produced by Sacrebleu productions and Between the pictures. The director’s project page has a separate full-film link.

Archive Note

The trailer was uploaded to Vimeo in March 2016. This is a fresh introduction to an earlier work, not a 2026 release or a current screening. The embedded video is the trailer, not the complete film.

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The roughly 118-second recording shows the front display and the floor screen working together. As the small points meet the physical space, a flat image takes on the depth of a stage.

Creator Note

In an interview with SBS, Lee said he used AI to reinterpret eye and iris patterns and bodily signals, including a pulse, and expand them into cosmic forms. The imagery is AI-assisted media art.

Work Context

The studio describes Cosmic Garden as a 2026 two-channel video installation. Its April 2026 Vimeo upload documents the stage work.

The piece was prepared for the opening of the SBS X Space forum on April 2 at SBS Prism Tower in Seoul. It is a record of that event, not a current exhibition.

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A railing and the outlines of people come into view first. Marks then collect around a body, feet and shoulders shift, and what looked like a still drawing becomes a moving wall. The ceiling and wooden floor in the shot show the scale of the installation.

Born in South Korea and based in New York, Lee works across printmaking, drawing, animation and installation. Her work centers on what accumulates in a drawing when a gesture repeats.

Watch For

The clip moves between one figure’s feet and the space it has crossed, and between clear outlines and fainter overlapping marks that give the scene different speeds. Because it documents the gallery, the room stays part of the view.

About the Work

The artist’s upload is titled Traveler_Palgongsan Series (part) and runs about 32 seconds. Her description identifies Traveler (2026) as a 10-minute, two-channel stop-motion work made up of nine short animations. The clip shows part of its installation.

Archive Note

Vimeo records the upload as September 9, 2026. In Transit, In Formation, the Korean Cultural Center New York exhibition that included Lee, ran March 5–April 18, 2026, and has closed.

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The 4:3 frame holds the pond, the trees and the distance between the two characters. A later shot lets passing figures fall out of focus. The camera stays with each image rather than moving much.

Creator Note

Jeonju’s official archive identifies A thread left as Minhyung Lee’s first short film, made in 2026. He also wrote and edited it. The 25-minute film was selected for the 27th festival’s Korean Competition for Shorts.

The Story

According to the director’s synopsis, cousins Kiyoung and Hyunwoo spend an ordinary day walking together after twenty years apart. The player contains his Vimeo trailer; a full-film online release or current screening has not been verified.

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The original preview shows mountains, trees and a pavilion rising from a scroll. During playback, a bowl appears on water among lotus leaves. It is a 3D exploration of surfaces, light and animated space, not footage of a pottery workshop.

Creator Note

The creator lists Cinema4D, Octane Render and After Effects and calls the film a personal, self-directed study. The brand name is its subject; no commission or endorsement by Kwangjuyo has been established.

Archive Pick

The original Vimeo upload is dated November 6, 2025. It is presented here through the creator’s original player.

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The camera follows the boundary between light and dark and the grain that gathers into forms before dissolving into texture again. Magnified halftone dots fill the screen, turning a single picture into an unfamiliar surface.

How It Moves

Kim describes using extreme close-ups to explore a printed image, following its lines and shapes. The subject stays still; the moving camera supplies rhythm and duration, bringing the physical structure of print onto the screen.

Work Context

The artist identifies the film as a 2026 experimental animation lasting 3 minutes 55 seconds, uploaded to Vimeo in September. The description credits Tracey Warr’s The Artist’s Body as source material and Korean Shamanic Rituals for sound. No current exhibition or screening is scheduled.