Kogonada
Known For: Directing
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).
Filmography
2026
- Zi ... (Director)
- Doors of Bresson ... (Director)
2025
- A Big Bold Beautiful Journey ... (Director)
2024
- The Acolyte ... (Director)
2023
2022
- Pachinko ... (Director)
- After Yang ... (Editor)
2019
- Columbus Story ... (Director)
2017
- Columbus ... (Director)
- Once There Was Everything ... (Director)
- Wes Anderson: From Above ... (Director)
- What Is Neorealism? ... (Director)
2016
- Godard in Fragments ... (Director)
- Way of Ozu ... (Director)
- The Way of Folk ... (Editorial Staff)
2015
- On Solace as Narrator
- Auteur in Space ... (Director)
- Elemental ... (Director)
- Mirrors of Bergman ... (Director)
- Dreams of Cinema as Narrator
- Restoring the Apu Trilogy ... (Director)
2014
- The Eye & the Beholder ... (Director)
- Wes Anderson: Centered ... (Editor)
- Criterion Designs ... (Director)
- Eyes of Hitchcock ... (Director)
- Hands of Bresson ... (Director)
- Trick or Truth ... (Director)
2013
- Linklater: On Cinema and Time ... (Director)
- Malick: Fire & Water ... (Editor)
- The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu ... (Director)
- BIFA: 15 Years ... (Director)
- Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the Hill ... (Director)
2012
- Sounds of Aronofsky ... (Director)
- Tarantino: From Below ... (Editor)
- Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective ... (Director)
- Ozu: Passageways ... (Director)
2010
- Lunch Line ... (Director)
2008
- Young Arabs ... (Director)