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ROTATING SIGNALS: THE CONTEMPORARY KOREAN AVANT-GARDE
2025
Director
Various
Starring
Runtime
114 minutes
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TONE GLOW PRESENTS
Tone Glow is excited to announce “Rotating Signals,” a program of 10 short films highlighting the contemporary landscape of Korean avant-garde film. The past few years have shown a renaissance in Korea’s local film scene, due in no small part to legendary filmmaker Lee Jangwook leading workshops at SPACE CELL in the early 2020s, which inspired younger filmmakers to create innovative works on 16mm. This would lead to the founding of different organizations, including Lothringen, who staged the ABBFF Festival in 2024, and Sorigrim, which has hosted numerous screenings since their founding last year.
Notably, the latter is a venue for this year’s EXiS, the annual Korean experimental film festival currently spearheaded by Inhan Cho. Some of the films in this program have been shown at (or will show at) EXiS, while others represent the different strains of Korean filmmaking as it has been shaped by the different institutions and communities where directors attended and/or currently live. This event does not intend to showcase the entire breadth of the Korean experimental film scene today, but instead provide a snapshot during a crucial time in its history. All films will be shown digitally.
FILMS
A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, 2025, 10 min)
Spoken Word (Hyo-in Kwak, 2023, 4 min)
Rotating Signals (Chae Yu, 2025, 10 mins)
Shadow-Forest (Go-eun Im, 2025, 28 mins)
Long Sand and Water (Hyeisoo Kim & Luuk Schröder, 2023, 5 min)
Bye, Snark, Boo-Jum! (Jiyong In, 2024, 8 mins)
Geomeunyeo (Kyujae Park, 2025, 3 mins)
Pyohaerok (Il-hwan, 2025, 14 min)
Buseok (Kyujae Park, 2024, 18 mins)
Lord (Chul-woong Jang, 2024, 14 mins)
Tone Glow is excited to announce “Rotating Signals,” a program of 10 short films highlighting the contemporary landscape of Korean avant-garde film. The past few years have shown a renaissance in Korea’s local film scene, due in no small part to legendary filmmaker Lee Jangwook leading workshops at SPACE CELL in the early 2020s, which inspired younger filmmakers to create innovative works on 16mm. This would lead to the founding of different organizations, including Lothringen, who staged the ABBFF Festival in 2024, and Sorigrim, which has hosted numerous screenings since their founding last year.
Notably, the latter is a venue for this year’s EXiS, the annual Korean experimental film festival currently spearheaded by Inhan Cho. Some of the films in this program have been shown at (or will show at) EXiS, while others represent the different strains of Korean filmmaking as it has been shaped by the different institutions and communities where directors attended and/or currently live. This event does not intend to showcase the entire breadth of the Korean experimental film scene today, but instead provide a snapshot during a crucial time in its history. All films will be shown digitally.
FILMS
A Dark Room (Heehyun Choi, 2025, 10 min)
Spoken Word (Hyo-in Kwak, 2023, 4 min)
Rotating Signals (Chae Yu, 2025, 10 mins)
Shadow-Forest (Go-eun Im, 2025, 28 mins)
Long Sand and Water (Hyeisoo Kim & Luuk Schröder, 2023, 5 min)
Bye, Snark, Boo-Jum! (Jiyong In, 2024, 8 mins)
Geomeunyeo (Kyujae Park, 2025, 3 mins)
Pyohaerok (Il-hwan, 2025, 14 min)
Buseok (Kyujae Park, 2024, 18 mins)
Lord (Chul-woong Jang, 2024, 14 mins)