When I first came across this video in my teens, I was drawn to a strange, unsettling feeling I had never experienced before. I see it as something both simple and experimental at the same time. It made me hope that one day, my own work could give someone a similar experience.

A work that gave me a lot of inspiration in terms of imagery and storytelling around chaos. Because it’s animation, it was able to explore so many directorial ideas that would be difficult to achieve in live action, and it really expanded my sense of imagination.

The moment in the final scene when Song Kang-ho looks directly into the camera. After more than two hours, the boundary between the film’s world and the audience suddenly collapses.
I can’t forget the mix of fear and exhilaration I felt in that instant. In my own work, when Yoo Ah-in appeared in a video for Se So Neon, I tried to evoke a similar feeling to that moment.

A work that helped me understand how the West looks at the East, and the lens of Orientalism behind it. As an artist from the East, I sometimes try to use that perspective strategically within my work. I also find the way it unfolds, and its use of music, incredibly intuitive and sensory.

Simple, everyday, and deeply personal. It also reflects moments of my own family, who spent my school years in Mexico. For me, it’s a work that brings a sense of inner peace just by watching it. The OST album by Emile Mosseri has been one of my most listened-to albums over the past few years.

When I first started making videos, I was deeply inspired by the stillness in his work. The way he holds the frame so firmly, with a photographic sensibility, felt more truthful to me than the many overstimulating videos around it.

There are so many visually playful and inventive directorial devices throughout, but what stayed with me the most is the insane title sequence. It showed me that film can express itself beyond just images, and that the medium itself can be stretched and expanded in unexpected ways.

There are no fixed rules in video. My inspiration comes from intuition and a raw, primal energy.

When I make videos, I always have a desire to turn the artist into an iconic presence within the film. This piece was a realization of that for me. It follows an ordinary boy, wearing ordinary clothes, in a simple story but through his iconic expressions and face alone, the film carries a powerful emotional punch.