MOON Seung-wook makes films with serious perspectives, reminiscent of Eastern European movies. In fact, he was the first Korean-born foreign student to study at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Using the documentary format, he delivers his characters’ emotions without exaggeration. MOON’s feature film debut was with Korea-Poland joint project <Alien(Taekwondo)> in 1998. His subsequent <Nabi-The Butterfly>(2001) was a pioneering film at a time digital f...More

MOON Seung-wook makes films with serious perspectives, reminiscent of Eastern European movies. In fact, he was the first Korean-born foreign student to study at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Using the documentary format, he delivers his characters’ emotions without exaggeration. MOON’s feature film debut was with Korea-Poland joint project <Alien(Taekwondo)> in 1998. His subsequent <Nabi-The Butterfly>(2001) was a pioneering film at a time digital filmmaking was being introduced in Korea. It took advantage of the mobility and unique texture of digital cameras, and the director made many of his directorial decisions right at shooting locations. This way of filmmaking suited the nature of the movie’s SF genre. <Nabi-The Butterfly> featured the talented [GANG Hye-jung], who gained fame with her role in <Old Boy>. MOON Seung-wook also directed <Romance>(2006), a melodrama that showed a different approach in his works. His next feature, the immigrant drama <The City of Crane>, debuted in 2010. Switching to the documentary format, MOON next crafted the innovative <Watchtower>, which screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival. <Watchtower> mixed documentary and sci-fi elements as people in Chuncheon in 2030 travel back to the past following the invention of a time machine. Less