Monday, August 30, 2010

Introducing Dong H Kim




I am a Student filmmaker from South Korea at University of Texas at Austin.

So far, I have been mostly focusing on producing documentaries, and directed two 10-minute-long pieces of docs on the voices of homeless people in Austin, Finding Joe and Voice in the Letter. Also, I produced two 4-minute-long docs.

I also kept my interest in creating animations, and learned to make 2D animations through Adobe Flash, and composed a 1-minute-long short 2D titled The Meat.
I am currently enrolled in the 3D animation and composition class and also taking real time cinematography class.

I've always thought that the potential of animation as a medium is so great, especially seeing those forms being used in many docs and narratives such as Waltz with Bashir, Scanner Darkley, and Chicago 10.

I admire the well-made game cinematics, especially those of Blizzard. They make the audience feel deeply connected to the world that does not exist in real life, as they see the realization of their avatars.

I want to fuse up the medium of animation into narrative films and docs. In this regard, one of my favourite moments in films of all times is the memory of Oren Ishii in Kill Bill Vol. 1, because the fusion was so explicitly made but at the same time, perfectly worked.