EX-Now 6 Korean Competition
Welcome to Set
Cyan Bae | Netherlands | 2026 | 15min
Congratulations! You’ve been selected as a validity rater for the datasets behind emotional AI technologies. Reenacting laboratory data collection processes, Welcome to Set invites you behind the scenes of machine learning, where data becomes drama.
A Fixing the Rare: Breeder A
Jiha Jeon | Korea | 2025 | 14min 11sec
Fixing the Rare: Breeder A is a fiction hybrid film following the struggle of an imaginary goldfish breeder in pursuit of the ultimate goldfish. Inspired by interviews with real breeders and excerpts from their diaries, it traces a story of obsession caught between preservation and transformation. Through his experimental journey, the audience indirectly witnesses the process by which life is born, selected, polished, and culled.
A Motionless Movie
Heehyun Choi | Korea | 2025 | 24min
A Motionless Movie imagines the perspective of Korean women reading the domestic/women’s pages of newspapers carrying Hollywood news in the 1920s and ’30s, and loosely traces Clara Bow’s trajectory across these pages.
fotofiction
HWIHWI | Korea | 2026 | 35min
<fotofiction> is composed of layers of photographs taken in the filmmaker's hometown since 2011. Some of the images were created through an ongoing practice between Jeju and the mainland, using materials gathered from the land—cuttlefish bones, bird feathers, organic matter from tangerine orchards, and other natural elements—to imprint images directly onto analogue film. </fotofiction>