Kogonada

Kogonada

Seoul, South Korea 34 Credits

Biography

Kogonada (sometimes styled: kogonada) is a South Korean-born American filmmaker. Kogonada is known for his video essays that analyze the content, form, and structure of various films and television series. The essays frequently use narration and editing as lenses and highlight a director's aesthetic. Kogonada regularly contributes to Sight & Sound and is often commissioned by The Criterion Collection to create supplemental videos for its home video releases. He has also written, directed and ed...

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

2025

Director, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

An imaginative tale of two strangers and the unbelievable journey that connects them.

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

2023

as Self

Acting

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin ...

After Yang

After Yang

2022

Editor, Writer, Director

6.4
Writing Directing

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discov...

Once There Was Everything

Once There Was Everything

2017

Director

7.0
Directing

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

Columbus

Columbus

2017

Writer, Director, Editor

7.1
Writing Directing

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midw...

Wes Anderson: From Above

Wes Anderson: From Above

2017

Editor, Director

6.8
Directing

A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography.

Way of Ozu

Way of Ozu

2016

Director

6.8
Directing

Kogonada’s video essay showcases the similarities of the multiple films Yasujiro Ozu made in his lifetime. Ozu created a genre of his own – a way of f...

Godard in Fragments

Godard in Fragments

2016

Director

6.5
Directing

In the 1960s, pioneering French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard introduced the world to a new cinematic lexicon, generated from his innovative, aut...

The Way of Folk

2016

Director, Editorial Staff

Directing

In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Ll...

Restoring the Apu Trilogy

Restoring the Apu Trilogy

2015

Director

8.0
Directing

In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though there w...

Dreams of Cinema

Dreams of Cinema

2015

as Narrator

Acting

This new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada explores the many layers of director Francois Truffaut's masterpiece "Day for Night."

Dreams of Cinema

Dreams of Cinema

2015

Editor, Writer, Director

Writing Directing

This new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada explores the many layers of director Francois Truffaut's masterpiece "Day for Night."

Elemental

Elemental

2015

Editor, Director

Directing

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

On Solace

On Solace

2015

as Narrator

Acting

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements.

On Solace

On Solace

2015

Director, Editor, Writer

Directing Writing

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements.

Mirrors of Bergman

Mirrors of Bergman

2015

Editor, Director

6.5
Directing

Filmmaker Kogonada reflects on women and mirrors in the films of Ingmar Bergman.

Auteur in Space

Auteur in Space

2015

Director, Editor

6.6
Directing

A video essay on how Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris transcends science fiction.

Criterion Designs

Criterion Designs

2014

Director

Directing

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art commission...

Trick or Truth

Trick or Truth

2014

Director

6.7
Directing

"I wanted to write a fantasy with the atomic bomb as the theme." – Nobuhiko Obayashi

The Eye & the Beholder

The Eye & the Beholder

2014

Director, Editor

Directing

A visual essay for "La dolce vita," directed by Kogonada for the Criterion Collection.

Eyes of Hitchcock

Eyes of Hitchcock

2014

Director, Editor

6.6
Directing

When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes ...

Hands of Bresson

Hands of Bresson

2014

Director

6.8
Directing

A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection.

Wes Anderson: Centered

2014

Editor, Director

7.4
Directing

As is made abundantly clear by this highly entertaining supercut of Wes Anderson’s films, the creator of such modern classics as The Royal Tenenbaums,...

Linklater: On Cinema and Time

Linklater: On Cinema and Time

2013

Director

7.0
Directing

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’...

What Is Neorealism?

What Is Neorealism?

2013

Director

7.4
Directing

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according t...

Malick: Fire & Water

Malick: Fire & Water

2013

Editor, Director

7.1
Directing

Of all the recurring signatures of Malick, his use of fire and water might be the most telling, in part because there’s a significant shift between ea...

The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu

The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu

2013

Editor, Director

8.0
Directing

The cinema of Koreeda Hirokazu is defined by moments of everyday life. Whatever potential there is for heightened drama – the suicide of a husband, a ...

BIFA: 15 Years

BIFA: 15 Years

2013

Director

7.0
Directing
Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the Hill

Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the Hill

2013

Director

7.0
Directing

Video Essay on King of the Hill

Ozu: Passageways

Ozu: Passageways

2012

Director, Editor

7.5
Directing

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63). His art resides in the in-between spac...

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective

2012

Director

7.0
Directing

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

Sounds of Aronofsky

Sounds of Aronofsky

2012

Director

6.8
Directing

Sound in film is often complimentary. Rarely does it suggest an aesthetic of its own. The punctuating, rhythmic soundscapes of Aronofsky are the excep...

Tarantino: From Below

Tarantino: From Below

2012

Editor, Director

6.0
Directing

Tarantino // From Below Music: Kaifuku Suru Kizu by Salyu

Lunch Line

Lunch Line

2010

Director

Directing

Reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program's surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future. Six kids from one of...