EX-Now 7 Korean Competition
No-da-ji Land
Izzy Lee | Korea, Netherlands | 2025 | 10min
No-da-ji Land is a 16mm fiction documentary film that explores displacement and the haunting presence of history. The analog film sets in the hometown of director’sfather and grandfather. This abandoned mining village was marked by gold rushesduring the Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945 and buried-moneyscandals in 2010s.
Death of 192 frames
Minjung Kim | Korea | 2026 | 10min
As the time preceding a beginning, the countdown leader's descending numbers evoke both anxiety and anticipation. As a temporal medium, 16mm film is material, tactile, and intrinsically bound to time.
Tale
Jaekyung Jung | Korea | 2025 | 16min
"Tale (2025) gazes into a narrow crevice, scarcely a hand’s breadth wide, between utility pole transformers that remain like barbs upon a primordial voidwhere human histories have been erased by urban development.
Ignition
LEE Soyoon | Korea | 2025 | 6min
In Ignition, there is someone who lights the fire. Through repetition, sensation shifts. One experiences senses extended through the machine. Narrative emerges through afterimages.
No landscape ever made me cry
Sujin Lee | Korea | 2025 | 5min 30sec
I am a crier, and this film tells stories about holding back (or not holding back) tears; words break down and often turn into crying. The film tries to explain those tears.
Body Alerts
Eunhee Lee | Korea | 2025 | 33min
Body Alerts (2025) examines how occupational diseases of the Industrial Revolution continue to repeat themselves in today's electronics industry.