KCAI Filmmaking Visiting Assistant Professor and AICAD Fellow Heehyun Choi is screening two of her recent short films, This Isn't What It Appears (20 min., 2022) and Our Cave (23 min., 2024), at the In Other News Gallery this Saturday, March 8 at 6 p.m.

In Other News (ION) Gallery is a space in the Holsum Gallery building. This Isn't What It Appears is part of a two-person exhibition there with Sam Haan, and the screening event is an extension of the show. An artist talk will follow the screening.

Because it is a small space, it can only hold a certain number of people and requires an RSVP. More information is available here.

Heehyun Choi is a moving image artist and educator based in South Korea and the US. Her practice is grounded on the interest in the physicality and virtuality in projected images, the unseen beings outside the camera frame, and the subjectivity and variability of the act of seeing.

Choi received her BA in Art&Technology at Sogang University and MFA in Film & Video at California Institute of the Arts. Her films have been screened internationally including at Edinburgh International Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, Images Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), and Ann Arbor Film Festival where she received the Mariam Ghani Juur Award. She is the recipient of 2024 KAFA (Korea Arts Foundation of America) Award, WNDX x NIMAC Experimental Moving Image Award, AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, Alison Doerner Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking, the Lightning Fund by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.​

Choi Hee-hyun makes experimental films based on Korea and the United States. It is interested in dealing with the mixture of physicality and hypotheticality found in projected images, the hidden things outside the camera frame, and the problem of subjective and variable ‘seeing’ at all times. He graduated from Sogang University with the Department of Art and Technology and the California Institute of the CalArts Film and Video. It was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 25FPS Film Festival, Images Film Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, and Seoul International Experimental Film Festival, and won the Jury Prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has won the 2024 KAFA Korea Arts Foundation of America Art Award, the WNDX x NIMAC Moving Image Award, the Ahl Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Alison Doerner Women's Film Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) The Lightning Fund.