Kogonada

Kogonada, Korean-American director, screenwriter, and editor, was born in Seoul but grew up in the American Midwest. He is known as a film theorist and critic, the author of a number of video essays about seminal world filmmakers and film movements of the classic era and today (e.g. neorealism, Fellini, Bergman, Hitchcock, Linklater) commissioned by the Criterion Collection and Sight & Sound. In his feature debut Columbus he takes up the topic of architecture, using it to ponder the crisis of the West.

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