Running Needs Nothing: Seoul, an Adidas advertisement, packs a night run through Seoul and friends laughing over snacks into 15 seconds.
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The film cuts from runners seen from above to close-up faces. Road markings, red shoes and blue-green light give the short sequence its pace and color. The people, not the cityscape, stay at the center.
Credits
The source credits director Joanna Nordahl, production company Anorak Film and agency TBWA Amsterdam. The Vimeo original is linked from editor Joey Henshaw’s portfolio.
Archive Note
Uploaded in July 2023, this is an archival Adidas advertisement in its original horizontal 16:9 frame. It is not a current campaign or club sign-up, and the locations shown are not verified running routes.
Adidas, Running Needs Nothing: Seoul. Approximately 15-second advertisement uploaded July 2023. Director Joanna Nordahl; production Anorak Film; agency TBWA Amsterdam. Source: Joey Henshaw / Vimeo.
Dan Lester’s 44-second animation draws fish, street snacks, birds and faces from a trip to Seoul, Busan and Gyeongju in black lines, then turns them into new patterns.
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Inside a square frame, forms turn and repeat as one scene gives way to the next. Skewers, bottles and fish bones are hidden in the food patterns. The changing rhythm of the lines matters as much as any single image.
Behind the Short
Lester says the work draws on sights, food and art he encountered in Seoul, Busan and Gyeongju. He credits himself with animation, design and sound design, and Yaeji with music. It is a traveler’s personal reworking of memory.
Archive Pick
The original upload is dated July 29, 2019, and plays through the creator’s Vimeo player. It contains rapid transitions and strong black-and-white contrast, which may affect viewers sensitive to light or motion.
Dan Lester, Visions of Korea, 2019. Animation, design and sound design: Dan Lester. Music: Yaeji. Creator’s original Vimeo upload.
A roughly 46-second film by Fault, shot and edited in one day at the 2025 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, was uploaded to Vimeo on October 8, 2026. It views lettered walls, folded curves and small facades from shifting distances.
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The film opens on a wall dense with color and lettering; a person passing below gives it scale. The sky then opens between sweeping structures, and later a split composition sets a rippling roof beside windows and a balcony. Close surfaces and distant outlines create different rhythms.
Fault describes the film as an independent project designed and filmed in one day at the 2025 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Watch For
The size of the people and the lines of walls and roofs anchor the film. Attention moves from large colored surfaces to small windows and material details, and the lettering works as part of the walls’ texture.
Dates & Context
The roughly 46-second film was uploaded to Vimeo on October 8, 2026. Its subject, the fifth Seoul Biennale, ran September 26–November 18, 2025, with Thomas Heatherwick as general director. The 2025 in the title is the event year; the upload came in 2026.
Archive Note
The biennale ended on November 18, 2025. The short is an online record of that exhibition; the player below contains the creator’s original upload.
Fault, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025 –Radically More Human. Uploaded 2026-10-08; approximately 46 seconds. Creator’s original film about the 2025 event.
A roughly 55-second aerial clip from the Chungnam Culture and Tourism Foundation shows the turquoise water, pale pebble shore and wooded slopes of Dolsakgeum Beach on Oeyeondo.
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The footage follows the shape of the cove. Large rocks frame it on either side, and a pale pebble shore gives way to a wooded slope. The camera lingers on the coastline without quick cuts.
Keep in Mind
The footage was filmed in 2024. It is not a live view, and clear water is no indication that swimming is safe today. Visitors should check departures from Daecheonhang Port and the return sailing in advance; current timetables and fares have not been confirmed.
Dolsakgeum Beach, Oeyeondo, filmed in 2024. Chungnam Culture and Tourism Foundation, KOGL Type 1.
A roughly ten-second animation by Seoul studio one more blue, made for Snapchat’s 2026 Korea National Liberation Day Mass Snap, shows Taegeukgi flags rising among buildings before revealing a mugunghwa flower that holds the city.
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The frame opens on buildings and flags under a blue sky, then widens to the flower that holds the whole scene. The scale shifts within a tall frame, ending with petals and handwritten Korean text, best seen in the original vertical format.
Who Made It
Seoul motion-design and animation studio one more blue created the illustrations and animation for Snapchat’s 2026 Korea National Liberation Day Mass Snap. The credits name Yoojin Jeong and Sumin Kwon for illustration, Sumin Kwon for look development and animation, and KIBLIND as agency.
Watch Note
The linked video is the studio’s roughly ten-second director’s version, uploaded to Vimeo in August 2026. It is a previously released commissioned animation, not a new October release or a current holiday event.
one more blue’s director’s version of Snapchat’s 2026 Korea National Liberation Day Mass Snap, approximately ten seconds.
An 82-second aerial clip looks down on the doksal at Jangpo-ri in Seocheon, South Chungcheong Province, traditional stone fish weirs whose low walls form distinct angles across the tidal flat.
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The camera moves slowly over exposed rock, mud and low walls emerging from shallow water. The regular stone lines sit beside the softer patterns left by the water.
What You Are Seeing
The Chungnam Culture and Tourism Foundation identifies these as traditional fish weirs once built to catch croakers. According to the provincial government, the stone-wall method makes use of the tide. The clip does not establish whether the weirs are still worked.
Keep in Mind
Filmed in 2024, the footage is not a current tide or access report, and the visible paths are not a safe route onto the mudflat. Visits, collecting and organized activities have not been verified.
Jangpo-ri fish weirs, Seocheon, filmed in 2024. Chungnam Culture and Tourism Foundation, KOGL Type 1. Archive footage, not current tide or access information.
The roughly 30-second trailer for Seun Yee’s cut-out animation Boundaries shows how a passenger reclining a bus seat changes the space around him, using flat paper figures inside rooms with real depth.
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The thin edges of the paper characters stand against boxlike rooms. Bright clothing and the distance between two facing figures shape the frame.
The Film
The artist’s premise starts with a passenger reclining a bus seat too far. That small intrusion upsets the balance of the space and pushes the story in unexpected directions. Boundaries is an 11-minute cut-out animation made in 2025.
Watch Note
The linked player is the artist’s trailer, uploaded to Vimeo in February 2026. A full-film online release or current screening has not been verified. It is best viewed in its original aspect ratio.
Official trailer for Seun Yee’s Boundaries (2025). The film is 11 minutes; this preview is about 30 seconds. Original February 2026 creator upload.
Dance Company WHYNOT’s BUEN CAMINO: Concept #2 Short Version, a dance film of about 2 minutes 37 seconds, follows a black-clad dancer bending into motion as waves arrive and retreat.
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Mist softens the line between sea and sky. A figure folds forward at the water’s edge; later, a closer body shares the frame with sand and low waves. The changing distance matters as much as any large gesture.
The director, Youngjun Shin, is WHYNOT’s artistic director. ARKO’s 2025 introduction says the work grew out of a pilgrimage experience and uses the sea to express an inner journey.
Watch For
The dancer’s center of weight and the shifting waves behind are the film’s two threads. Close views alternate with shots in which the dancer occupies only a small part of the landscape. The film is not an invitation to copy the movement at the shore.
People & Format
Directed by Youngjun Shin; performed by Shin, Jaewoo Jung, Jaeho Shim and Hyobin Lee; cinematography and videography by Hyunsu Cho. This company upload, about 2 minutes 37 seconds long, is the Concept #2 Short Version, distinct from the 8-minute-12-second work listed by ARKO.
The official trailer for Eolssu!, an animation by YIM Sujin and KIM Yoobin, runs 31 seconds. It follows a boy’s stage fright at a school pansori performance into imagined scenes.
The story
YIM Sujin and KIM Yoobin’s 2026 film follows Eunsu as he prepares to sing pansori at his middle-school festival. The official synopsis says the boy draws on his teacher’s advice and his imagination to face his fear of the stage.
The trailer shows his fan and hanbok, then bird and landscape imagery that carry the setting beyond the school stage.
How pansori works
According to the National Institute of Korean History, pansori combines sung passages, spoken narration and gesture, with the drummer’s rhythm and calls of encouragement taking part in the performance. Audience responses are also part of it.
Scene changes
The trailer moves from Eunsu’s face and fan to a shifting background, crossing between a real stage and an imagined landscape. It is animation, not documentary footage of a traditional performance. The official technique credit is “2D Computer, AI.”
Trailer and full film
KIAFA[AniSEED] uploaded the roughly 31-second trailer on 30 April 2026. The 6-minute-33-second running time in the catalogue refers to the complete film.
Korean text appears on screen, and the player lists Korean automatically generated captions. English and Japanese subtitles are not listed. The film is in landscape format and keeps its wide framing on a phone.
Official trailer for YIM Sujin and KIM Yoobin’s Eolssu! (2026), approximately 31 seconds. From KIAFA[AniSEED].
A 33-second excerpt from Ahry Keem’s Paranoia traces a feedback loop of cameras, viewers and images. Blue, green and red overlap as a place turns into an image.
How the work is made
The artist describes the work as documentation of a hardware-installation performance at Windmill, Seoul, in 2025. CCTV captures audience interventions and signals from the room, which enter an analog-digital video-feedback system.
As the space is re-recorded and the signals loop back, the recognizable room gradually turns into abstract movement and residual noise.
On screen
The excerpt is built from saturated layers of colour and restless patterns. Shapes persist or give way to other colours, and the point at which the place becomes unrecognizable is central to the work.
The artist
Gallery sangheeut’s biography says Keem worked in art direction for film and music videos before turning to the relationships between sound, image and a particular place.
That experience of building visual worlds carries into this work, which feeds a space back into an image-making apparatus.
Dates and durations
This roughly 33-second excerpt was uploaded on 4 October 2026. The artist lists the complete Paranoia (2026) as a colour-and-sound work lasting 11 minutes 30 seconds.
Windmill’s SPACE CINEMA performances took place on 27–28 June 2025, with screenings on 4–6 July 2025; both are past events. Music is credited to will du toit. The clip contains strong colour contrasts and rapidly changing imagery.
Official excerpt from Ahry Keem’s Paranoia (2026), approximately 33 seconds. Music: will du toit.
Goldmark Gallery’s roughly 36-second promo for its 2026 Kang-Hyo Lee exhibition, released August 19, shows the artist’s pottery up close: layered white slip and rounded forms.
The film
Kang-Hyo Lee Exhibition Promo | 2026 is an official film of about 36 seconds. Close views of finished forms and surfaces alternate with images of the artist. The contrast between the clay body and its lighter layers is the film’s main subject.
Buncheong surfaces
Lee’s work connects Korean onggi construction with buncheong decoration. Onggi is the tradition of large storage jars used for foods including fermented ingredients.
Buncheong applies white slip, a liquid clay mixture, over a darker clay body. The white layer is not a uniform coating; it records brushing, movement and overlapping marks.
How he works
According to Woonjoong Gallery, Lee layers slips of different colours and applies them with his hands, body movements and brushes, sometimes splashing them on. Samulnori, Korean percussion music, accompanies the work. The promo does not demonstrate the full process, but the marks on the pots trace the artist’s gestures.
Release and exhibition
Goldmark Gallery uploaded the official promo on August 19, 2026, ahead of the September 12 opening it announced for its fourth major Lee exhibition.
Goldmark Gallery, Kang-Hyo Lee Exhibition Promo | 2026. Uploaded 2026-08-19; approximately 36 seconds.
Digital-art studio d’strict released a 61-second official film on September 2, 2026, documenting Hello Fish, its work on a curved screen at COEX in Seoul. Small fish gather into a giant face, their bodies carrying greetings in many languages.
The creator
Founded in 2004, d’strict is a Korean digital-design and art company that combines media technology with content to create spatial experiences. Beyond the image itself, the screen’s position on a building, its shape and the viewer’s distance are part of the work.
In this film
Hello Fish gathers individual fish into a much larger form. Up close, greetings are visible on their bodies; from a distance, the face and flow of the school take over.
The display wraps around a building’s corner, giving the composition a depth a flat rectangle lacks.
Greetings in 60-plus languages
The studio says the work includes greetings in more than 60 languages. Viewers need not read them all: a familiar greeting and the movement of the fish come through first. The many scripts share one screen, and the piece registers even with passersby glancing at a city billboard.
Release and run
d’strict uploaded this official record on September 2, 2026. The installation ran at COEX KPOP Square in Seoul from July 1 to August 31, 2026, and has ended.
d’strict, Hello Fish. Official film uploaded 2026-09-02, approximately 61 seconds, documenting the July–August 2026 COEX installation.
