Shon Kim

Shon Kim

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Shon Kim holds a BA in Law from Hanyang University, BFA in Film & Video from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Animation Theory from Chung-Ang University. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

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BOOKANIMA: Dance 2018 (7.8)

A compound word of 'Book' and 'Anima', to give new cinematic life to books. It experiments with the locomotion of Dance along with its stream: Ballet-Korean dance-Modern dance-Jazz dance-Aerial Silk-Tap dance-Aerobic-Disco-Break dance-Hip hop-Social dance.
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BOOKANIMA: Andy Warhol 2020

"BOOKANIMA," a compound word of "Book" and "Anima," is an experimental animation seeking to breathe new life into the former though the latter using chronophotography. "BOOKANIMA: Andy Warhol" is the latest in Kim's "Book Cinema" series.
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Stan Brakhage's Liberation 2012

Direct film has lost the material properties, and the original form has dissolved. By finding that form again, and retrieving its original properties, I am to liberate Stan Brakhage, the symbol of Direct Film that is so smeared upon history. This project will be recorded as the first experiment of Direct technique that has ventured into the history of media art with 'Direct File' and 'Direct Video', both of which are offered as new concepts. Commission Work for