Filmmaker, researcher and collaborator based in Jeju Island, S.Korea. She/They are also called Grace.
Meisterschüler in Media Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin
BFA in Studio Art, New York University, New York City
Archives
Map without Island, 91 min, 2021
The Memory of the 25th Hour, 78min, 2017
Short
Some Queer Bo-ki, 10min, 2020
The Will, 20min, 2018
Compilation
Spring Wind Project - We are here, 114min, 2022
Spring Wind Project 2 : Meet comrades again, 87min, 2024
MUBI
KMDb
indie ground
Map without Island
2021 ㅣ 91m ㅣ Experimntal Documentary ㅣ DCP ㅣ Color, B&W ㅣ 2.35:1 ㅣ Dolby Digital 5.1
Film Festivals
2022
2021
MU X Cavia Film Festival
Seoul Urban Film Festival
Seoul International Architecture Film Festival
Seoul Human Rights Film Festival
Seoul International Women's Film Festival
Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf)
Incheon Women's Film Festival
Diaspora Film Festival
Jeju Film Festival
Incheon Human Rights Film Festival
Busan Independent Film Festival
Seoul Independent Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Screenings
2022
Korean Film Archive Cinemateque (KOFA) Independent Film Showcase Exhibition
Awards
Workshops & Forum
Jeju National University Tamna Cultural Research Institute, Film Screening and Director Talk
Some Queer Bo-Ki
2020 ㅣ 10m ㅣDocumentaryㅣColor
Film Festivals
2021
2020
Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Seoul International Pride Film Festival, Korea
Kansai Queer Film Festival, Osaka, Japan
Seoul Independent Film Festival
Screenings
The Will
2018 ㅣ 20m ㅣ Experimntal Documentary and Video Installation ㅣ Color, B&W ㅣ Dolby Digital 5.1
Film Festivals
2018
Independent Documentary Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (Sidof)
The 19th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf)
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Digital Anthropologies/Anthropologies Numériques, Paris, France
Installations at
2017
Illuminating Shade for Big Window, Jenny Cho Solo exhibition at Sindowh Culture Space, Seoul, Korea
2017 ㅣ 78m ㅣ Documentary ㅣ DCP ㅣ Color, B&W ㅣ 16:9 ㅣ Dolby Digital 5.1
Film Festivals
2018
2017
2016
Jean Rouch Film Festival, Paris, France
SHOFF, Busan, Korea
Festival International du Film Insulaire de Groix FIFIG, France
NEW CROSS & DEPTFORD FREE FILM FESTIVAL, London, UK
Incheon Human Right's Film Festival, Incheon, Korea
The DOK Film Market - DOK Leipzig
Jeju Fringe Festival, Jeju, Korea
Document Film Festival, Glasgow, Scottland
Visions du Réel Media Library, Nyon, Switzerland
Iksan Women's Film Festival, Iksan,S.Korea
Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival, Seoul, S.Korea
FACA – FESTA DE ANTROPOLOGIA, CINEMA E ARTE, Lisbon, Portugal (48Min Thesis Version)
Conferences
2021
2019
2017
2016
Antimilitarism in the Pacific Islands, Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, UC San Diego, USA, 2021
Radical Film Network Meeting, silent green Berlin, Germany
German Anthropological Association Conference at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
THE SOCIAL – the IAVC conference at Boston University, Boston, USA
Anthropopologies Numeriques 4th Edition at Le Cube, Paris, France
Exhibitions
Screenings
2017
2016
다큐싶다, 국도예술관, 부산
SIDOF 발견과 주목, 인디스페이스, 서울
Sejem akademske knjige Liber.ac, Slovenian Cinemateque, Ljubljana, Slovenia(48Min Thesis Version)
Unknown Names
2024 ㅣ 8m ㅣ Documentary
in Spring Wind Project 2 : Meet comrades again, 87min, 2024
Film Festivals
Hotel K
2022 ㅣ 6m ㅣ Documentary
in Spring Wind Project - We are here, 114min, 2022
Film Festivals
Seoul Human Rights Film Festival
Women’s Film Festival in Gwangju
Selected Exhibitions & Screeningss
Unmute Water: A Walk in Oscillation, Sanjicheon Gallery, Jeju, Korea, 2024
Unmute Water: The Sound of Muted Water, Gamjeo Gallery, Seogwipo, Korea, 2023
Busan MoCA Cinemedia Climate of Cinema: Isle, the Planet and Postcontact Zone, 2023
Korean Film Archive Cinemateque (KOFA) Independent Film Showcase, 2022
feels good to know you exist, Datsuijo, Tokyo, 2022
Solo Exhibition: From Afar Valley Deepens, Space Bisugi, Seogwipo, Jeju Island, 2021
The Line Stretched Toward You, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, 2021
Art Alumni Show, NYU Department of Art and Art Professions, New York, 2018
Illuminating Shade for Big Window, Jenny Cho Solo exhibition at Sindowh Culture Space, Seoul, Korea, 2017
Mitte Media Arts Festival, Fata Morgana, Berlin, Germany, 2017
Interrupted Survey : Fractured Modern Mythologies (part of “Refrain” by Angela Melitopolous), ACC, Gwangju, Korea, 2016
Jajaja Nenene, Fata Morgana, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Observation 6-Freie Universität Visual and Media Anthropology G6 Exhibition, Keller, Berlin, 2014
Gangjeong, Breath, Suwon City Museum, Suwon, Korea, 2014
Thinking Media III, Choong-mu Art Hall gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2013
The Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2013
Screening Week, Cruise & Callas gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2013
More or Less, WCW gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 2013
Limited Space: Sarajevo / Berlin, designtransfer, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany, 2012
Between Walls and Windows Architecture and Ideology at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2012
NORMALLY when the birds sing HE WAKES UP, live AV performance at Expanded Music Festival, Hans Eisler hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Esrever, live AV performance at Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Incite, 21st International Video festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 2011
Interferenzialistische Konferenz, live AV performance, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Klein Kunst, Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul, Korea, 2011
Shor-Term Deviation, efa Project Space, NYC, USA,2010
Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea, 2010
BITT Festival, Atlang Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2010
Außenwelt der Innenwelt der Außenwelt, Shanglhangle gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2010
NYU Studio Art Graduation Group Exhibition, The commons at NYU, NYC, USA
I made your mother period, I made her period period, Rosenburg gallery, NYC, USA, 2008
Klein Geld, NYU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Selected Conferences & Forum
Edges of Empire/Pacific Rim, ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, UCLA, USA, 2022
Antimilitarism in the Pacific Islands, Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, UC San Diego, USA, 2021
German Anthropological Association Conference at Freie Universität, Berlin, 2017
The Social:the 4th International Association for Visual Culture Biennial Conference at Boston University, Boston, 2016
Anthropologies Numériques, Le Cube, Paris, France, 2016
Selected Performances
Today is 11th June 1993 (dir. Clarissa Thieme), 2018
A Game of Fives (dir. Enrico Stolzberg) at 13. Münchener Biennale, International Festival for New Music Theater, Munich, Germany, 2012
A Game of Fives at UNIT.T-Theater, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany, 2012
Expanded Music Festival, Hans Eisler hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Esrever, Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Incite, 21st International Video festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 2011
Interferenzialistische Konferenz, live AV performance, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 2011
Books
Lee Youjin, Choi Yoomi, Cho Hyesoo, Jaka Sumitomo, Fumihiko, Kim Sungeun (Grace), Saeng Saeng and Park Eunae. Outward: Rirkrit Tiravanija and the Aesthetics of Noji, Chroma Editions, 2025.
Anpak, Black Panther, Kim, Han Jino, Heeum, Jeon Solbi, Kim Sungeun, Kim Youngok, and Noh Soontaek. Collaborators Inside the Mouth. Total Museum Press, 2024.
Kim, Sungeun. “Sensory Trajectories Toward The Map Without Islands.” 2022 Independent Film Showcase, Korean Independent Film Association, January 2023, pp. 254–274, 2023
Selected Bibliography
Cited in
Liosi, Marianna, “Activist videos: montage as a creative toolfor student reflections on their role asspectators”, Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, 2018
Kim, Nan, “The Color of Dissent and a Vital Politics of Fragility in South Korea“, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 77, No. 4 (NOVEMBER 2018), pp. 971-990, Duke University Press, 2018
Mentioned in
“A Conversation with Sungeun Kim.” Interview by Djahane Zaïr. Kino Bize, published September 5, 2023.
Jung, Woosik. “Jeju National University’s Tamla Cultural Research Institute Holds Screening and Talk for The Map Without Islands.” Jeju Ilbo, September 14, 2023.
“[Interview] Feature-Length Section – The Map Without Islands.” ALT INTER-VIEW × TITLE, ALT Magazine, vol.2., 2022
Park, Jooyeon. “Stories of Interconnected Bodies from a Yemeni Woman in Jeju: Interview with Sungeun Kim, Director of The Map Without Islands.” Feminist Journal ILDA, October 10, 2022.
Chae, Hyewon. “A Wandering World, a Settled Jeju: Documentary Filmmaker Sungeun Who Studied in New York and Berlin and Documented Gangjeong.” Hankyoreh21, November 6, 2021.
Shin, Jaeuk. “The Memory of the 25th Hour.” Restless Species, Independent Publication, 2017