Gina Kim

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Gina Kim born 1973 Korea is a director documentary filmmaker and academic She is known for her deeply personal films that explore issues such as gender race and diaspora Much of her work explores Korean culture in an explicitly selfreflexive and emotive way Kims first noted documentary was Gina Kims Video Diary begun in 1995 when she had recently arrived in Los Angeles and completed in 2002 Invisible Light 2003 is about a woman married to a man named Jun and another involved in an affair with him1 Kims fictional film Never Forever 2007 featured a wellreviewed starring performance by actress Vera Farmiga and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Her documentary Faces of Seoul 2009 reveals Koreas capital as a dynamic place where these opposing conceptslanguage vs image tradition vs modern native knowledge vs exotic encounterrub against each other without yielding a single dominant perspective Kim studied at CalArts and was a fulltime lecturer at Harvard Universitys Department of Visual and Environmental Studies housed in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts between 2004 and 2007 Description above from the Wikipedia article Gina Kim licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia