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