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| birth_name = E. Joong-Eun Park<ref name="park">{{Cite book |author=Christian Keathley |chapter=La caméra-stylo: notes on video criticism and cinephilia |title=The Language and Style of Film Criticism: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies |editor1=Andrew Klevan |editor2=Alex Clayton |publisher=London and New York: Routledge, 2011 |date=2011 |page=176-91 |ISBN=9780415560955 |quote="‘Kogonada ’is the nom de plume of E. Joong-Eun Park, a virtuoso videoessayist who has gone on to become a feature filmmaker."|url=https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/162961/3/AO%27Leary%20DRenga_Teaching%20Italian%20Cinema-TV-Videgraphic%20criticism_RevisedMay2020-no%20images.pdf }}</ref>
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| birth_place = [[Seoul]], South Korea<ref name=profile>{{cite web|title=:: kogonada|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//people/kogonada|website=BFI|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref>
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* ''[[Columbus (2017 film)|Columbus]]''
* ''[[After Yang]]''
* ''[[The Acolyte (TV series)|The Acolyte]]''
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'''Kogonada''' (sometimes styled ''':: kogonada'''<ref name="profile" />) is a South Korean-born American filmmaker.<ref name=Hidalgo>{{cite web|last1=Hidalgo|first1=Mónica|title=Kogonada and Simone Grau, at the Festival's Workshops|url=http://blog.lpafilmfestival.com/en/kogonada-and-simone-grau-at-the-festivals-workshops/|website=[[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival|LPA Film Festival]]|publisher=Promocion Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria SA|access-date=24 July 2016|date=9 March 2016}}</ref>
 
'''E. Joong-Eun Park'''<ref name="park"/>, known professionally as '''Kogonada'''<ref name=profile />, is a South Korean-born American filmmaker.<ref name=Hidalgo>{{cite web|last1=Hidalgo|first1=Mónica|title=Kogonada and Simone Grau, at the Festival's Workshops|url=http://blog.lpafilmfestival.com/en/kogonada-and-simone-grau-at-the-festivals-workshops/|website=[[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival|LPA Film Festival]]|publisher=Promocion Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria SA|access-date=24 July 2016|date=9 March 2016}}</ref> He is known for his [[video essay]]s that analyze the content, form, and structure of various films and television series. The essays frequently use narration and editing as lenses, and often highlight a director's aesthetic. Kogonada—a pseudonym<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-10-06|title=Kogonada: 'I am obsessive. My father would have me look at rocks and branches a certain way''|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/06/kogonada-south-korean-film-director-columbus-interview|access-date=2021-09-21|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>—isis a regular contributor to ''[[Sight & Sound]]'', and is frequently commissioned by [[The Criterion Collection]] to create supplemental videos for its home-video releases. He has also written, directed and edited the feature films ''[[Columbus (2017 film)|Columbus]]'' (2017) and ''[[After Yang]]'' (2021). He also directed two episodes of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Disney+]] series ''[[The Acolyte (TV series)|The Acolyte]]'' (2024).
 
==Early life, family and education==
==Life==
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Kogonada emigrated from [[South Korea]] as a child, andto the US. He was raised in [[Indiana]] and [[Chicago]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Yu |first=Brandon |date=2022-03-04 |title=With His Sci-Fi Android, a Filmmaker Considers What It Means to Be Alive |language= en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/movies/kogonada-after-yang-film.html |access-date=2022-09-03 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> As of 2022, he resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2018-09-28 |title=Director Kogonada: 'Film gave me breath' |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ead2ac00-c0a9-11e8-84cd-9e601db069b8 |access-date=2022-09-03}}</ref>
 
==Pseudonym==
HeKogonada attends screenings oftook his works. He explained to ''[[Filmmaker Magazine|Filmmaker]]'':<blockquote>I like [[Chris Marker]]'s idea about your work being your work. I’ve also never identified much with my American name, which always feels a little strange to see or hear ... And I'm quite fond of [[Heteronym (literature)|heteronyms]].<ref name="Macaulay" /></blockquote>His pseudonym is taken from [[Kogo Noda]], a frequent screenwriter of [[Yasujirō Ozu]]'s films.<ref>{{cite web |last=Buder |first= Emily |date=August 8, 2017-08-08 |title= 'Columbus': Video Essayist Kogonada on His Stunning Feature Debut and Why Critics Should Make Movies |url=https://nofilmschool.com/2017/08/kogonada-columbus-interview-review |access-date=December 5, 2019-12-05 |work=No Film School |quote=While writing a Ph.D. dissertation on Yasujirō Ozu, Kogonada—the nom de guerre of the Korean-born director, inspired by Ozu's screenwriter, Kogo Noda—came across an article about a little-known town called Columbus, Indiana.}}</ref> InHe aexplained 2018 interview with theto ''[[FinancialFilmmaker TimesMagazine|Filmmaker]]'', he stated:{{quote|I "Iflike I[[Chris Marker]]'ms honest,idea theabout pseudonymyour was aboutwork being anyour Asian-American toowork. ThereI’ve isalso somethingnever aboutidentified beingmuch anwith immigrantmy inAmerican Americaname, andwhich havingalways thefeels powera little strange to namesee or hear yourself.".. And I'm quite fond of [[Heteronym (literature)|heteronyms]].<ref name=":0Macaulay" />}}
 
In a 2018 interview with the ''[[Financial Times]]'', Kogonada stated: {{quote|If I'm honest, the pseudonym was about being an Asian-American too. There is something about being an immigrant in America and having the power to name yourself.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2018-09-28 |title=Director Kogonada: 'Film gave me breath' |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ead2ac00-c0a9-11e8-84cd-9e601db069b8 |access-date=2022-09-03 |first=Danny |last=Leigh }}</ref>}}
 
==Video essays==
Kogonada made his first video essay, ''Breaking Bad // POV'', in January 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Film Studies in Motion: Breaking Bad // POV [by Kogonada]|url=https://scalar.usc.edu/works/film-studies-in-motion/breaking-bad--pov-by-kogonada|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Film Studies in Motion: From audiovisual essay to academic research video|language=en}}</ref> Using clips from the American television series ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', the video displays the series' use of numerous [[point-of-view shot]]s from unusual angles and objects. Kogonada was inspired to create the video essay while he watched the series, noticing a recurring visual aesthetic used throughout the series.<ref>{{cite web|author1=:: kogonada|title=Breaking Bad // POV on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/34773713|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=9 January 2012}}</ref><ref name=Nashville>{{cite web|last1=Ridley|first1=Jim|title=kogonada: The Image Master|url=http://www.nashvillescene.com/home/article/13058444/kogonada|website=Nashville Scene|publisher=Southcomm Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
 
Kogonada's first commissioned work was for ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' in February 2013, titled ''The World According to [[Hirokazu Kore-eda|Kore-eda Hirokazu]]'', which highlights director Kore-eda's regular focus on everyday life in his films.<ref name=Nashville/><ref>{{cite web|author1=:: kogonada|title=The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/62088276|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=18 March 2013}}</ref> Since then, most of his video essays are commissions for companies which include the [[British Film Institute]] (publisher of ''Sight & Sound''),<ref>{{cite web|author1=:: kogonada|title=The long conversation: Richard Linklater on cinema and time|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/long-conversation-richard-linklater-cinema-time|website=Sight & Sound &#124; BFI|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=24 July 2016|date=23 February 2015}}</ref> [[The Criterion Collection]],<ref>{{cite web|author1=:: kogonada|title=Watch ''Criterion Designs''|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3388-watch-criterion-designs|website=The Criterion Collection|publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]|access-date=24 July 2016|date=5 December 2014}}</ref> [[Samsung]],<ref>{{cite web|author1=:: kogonada|title=Elemental on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/130804189|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=15 June 2015}}</ref> and the [[Lincoln Motor Company]].<ref>{{cite web|author1=The Lincoln Motor Company|author-link=The Lincoln Motor Company|title=Expansion: The Feeling Stays With You on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/138099150|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=2 September 2015}}</ref>
 
Kogonada's works are part of a growing movement of video essays as a visual form of [[film analysis]], appreciation, and criticism on the Internet;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Kevin B.|title=Poll: The Best Video Essays of 2015|url=https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/poll-the-best-video-essays-of-2015|website=[[Fandor (film site)|Keyframe]]|publisher=Our Film Festival, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=December 17, 2015|quote=... there are more practicing video essayists and regularly producing sites than can fit into a cohesive network or community .... As with just about everything related to the Internet, too much is the new normal in the world of video essays.|archive-date=15 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815155246/https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/poll-the-best-video-essays-of-2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=In Reference to: Visual Essays|url=http://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/program/telelecture/2161|website=[[Berlin International Film Festival#Berlinale Talents|Berlinale Talents]]|publisher=Berlinale Talents|access-date=28 July 2016|date=15 February 2016|quote=Recent years have seen the increased popularity of short online videos that explore films or the œuvre of a director by reworking and commenting on shots and scenes to reveal new insights.}}</ref> other video essayists include Nelson Carvajal and Tony Zhou,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Carvajal|first1=Nelson|title=Nelson Carvajal on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/nelsoncarvajal|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Zhou|first1=Tony|title=Tony Zhou on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> as well as film critics Kevin B. Lee and [[Matt Zoller Seitz]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Kevin B.|title=Filmmakers in Disguise|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/06/transformers_premake_documentary_age_of_extinction_inspires_guerrilla_video.html|website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|publisher=[[The Slate Group]]|access-date=24 July 2016|date=17 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Marshall|first1=Colin|title=What's the Big Deal About Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel? Matt Zoller Seitz's Video Essay Explains|url=http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/whats-the-big-deal-about-the-grand-budapest-hotel.html|website=Open Culture|publisher=Open Culture, LLC|access-date=24 July 2016|date=19 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Seitz, Matt Zoller|author-link=Matt Zoller Seitz|author2=Tafoya, Scout|title=The Unloved, Part Fifteen: "The Lone Ranger" & "Heaven's Gate"&#124; MZS|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/the-unloved-part-fifteen-the-lone-ranger-and-heavens-gate|website=RogerEbert.com|publisher=Ebert Digital LLC|access-date=24 July 2016|date=2 March 2015}}</ref>▼
 
Kogonada's video essay ''Hands of [[Robert Bresson|Bresson]]'' was chosen by filmmaker [[Robert Greene (filmmaker)|Robert Greene]] for ''Sight & Sound'' as one of the best documentaries of 2014, with Greene stating that works like his "make clear that the line between nonfiction film and video essay is at best blurry and the best work should simply be celebrated as cinema."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Greene|first1=Robert|title=The best documentaries of 2014|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//sight-sound-magazine/best-documentaries-2014|website=Sight & Sound&#124; BFI|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=28 July 2016|date=4 August 2015}}</ref>
▲Kogonada's works are part of a growing movement of video essays as a visual form of [[film analysis]], appreciation and criticism on the Internet;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Kevin B.|title=Poll: The Best Video Essays of 2015|url=https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/poll-the-best-video-essays-of-2015|website=[[Fandor (film site)|Keyframe]]|publisher=Our Film Festival, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016|date=December 17, 2015|quote=... there are more practicing video essayists and regularly producing sites than can fit into a cohesive network or community .... As with just about everything related to the Internet, too much is the new normal in the world of video essays.|archive-date=15 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815155246/https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/poll-the-best-video-essays-of-2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=In Reference to: Visual Essays|url=http://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/program/telelecture/2161|website=[[Berlin International Film Festival#Berlinale Talents|Berlinale Talents]]|publisher=Berlinale Talents|access-date=28 July 2016|date=15 February 2016|quote=Recent years have seen the increased popularity of short online videos that explore films or the œuvre of a director by reworking and commenting on shots and scenes to reveal new insights.}}</ref> other video essayists include Nelson Carvajal and Tony Zhou,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Carvajal|first1=Nelson|title=Nelson Carvajal on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/nelsoncarvajal|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Zhou|first1=Tony|title=Tony Zhou on Vimeo|url=https://vimeo.com/tonyzhou|website=[[Vimeo]]|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> as well as film critics Kevin B. Lee and [[Matt Zoller Seitz]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Kevin B.|title=Filmmakers in Disguise|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/06/transformers_premake_documentary_age_of_extinction_inspires_guerrilla_video.html|website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|publisher=[[The Slate Group]]|access-date=24 July 2016|date=17 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Marshall|first1=Colin|title=What's the Big Deal About Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel? Matt Zoller Seitz's Video Essay Explains|url=http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/whats-the-big-deal-about-the-grand-budapest-hotel.html|website=Open Culture|publisher=Open Culture, LLC|access-date=24 July 2016|date=19 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Seitz, Matt Zoller|author-link=Matt Zoller Seitz|author2=Tafoya, Scout|title=The Unloved, Part Fifteen: "The Lone Ranger" & "Heaven's Gate"&#124; MZS|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/the-unloved-part-fifteen-the-lone-ranger-and-heavens-gate|website=RogerEbert.com|publisher=Ebert Digital LLC|access-date=24 July 2016|date=2 March 2015}}</ref>
 
Kogonada's video essay ''Hands of [[Robert Bresson|Bresson]]'' was chosen by filmmaker [[Robert Greene (filmmaker)|Robert Greene]] for ''Sight & Sound'' as one of the best documentaries of 2014, with Greene stating that works like his "make clear that the line between nonfiction film and video essay is at best blurry and the best work should simply be celebrated as cinema."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Greene|first1=Robert|title=The best documentaries of 2014|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//sight-sound-magazine/best-documentaries-2014|website=Sight & Sound&#124; BFI|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=28 July 2016|date=4 August 2015}}</ref> In March 2016, Kogonada was part of the official jury for the 16th [[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival|LPA Film Festival]] at the [[Canary Islands]], Spain, where he taught a master class and had screenings for 14 of his video essays at the "Bande à part" section.<ref name="Hidalgo" /><ref>{{cite web|title=KOGONADA'S WORKS|url=http://lpafilmfestival.com/events/kogonadas-works?locale=en|website=:: [[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival]]|publisher=Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria|access-date=25 July 2016|archive-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806052320/http://lpafilmfestival.com/events/kogonadas-works?locale=en|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hidalgo|first1=Mónica|title=Kogonada's film essay works, in Bande à part|url=http://blog.lpafilmfestival.com/en/kogonadas-works-in-bande-a-part/|website=[[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival|LPA Film Festival]]|publisher=Promocion Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria SA|access-date=24 July 2016|date=11 March 2016}}</ref>
 
Among Kogonada's video essays on influential film directors are:<ref name=kogonada>{{Cite web|url=http://kogonada.com/|title=:: kogonada Home Page|author=:: kogonada|website=kogonada|date=|publisher=kogonada.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-20}}</ref>
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==Filmography==
'''Film'''
 
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===Film===
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|{{yes}}
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|2021
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|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}▼
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|2025
|TBA
|''[[A Big Bold Beautiful Journey]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Filming; alsoAlso executive producer ▼
|{{no}}▼
▲| Filming; also executive producer
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==='''Television director==='''
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|2022
|''[[Pachinko (TV series)|Pachinko]]''
▲|{{yesYes}}
|4 episodes; also executive producer
▲|{{yesYes}}
|4 episodes
|-
|2024
|''[[The Acolyte (TV series)|The Acolyte]]''
|{{Yes}}
▲|{{noNo}}
|2 episodes
|}
 
===Accolades===
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|2022
|[[Peabody Awards]]
|Entertainment
|''[[Pachinko (TV series)|Pachinko]]''
|{{won}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Voyles |first=Blake |date=September 14, 2023 |title=83rd Peabody Award Winners |url=https://peabodyawards.com/awards/winners/ |accessdate=September 14, 2023}}</ref>
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