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Park Joong Eun (Korean: 박중은), known professionally as Kogonada, is a South Korean-born American filmmaker. He is known for his video essays that analyze the content, form, and structure of various films and television series. The essays frequently use narration and editing as lenses and highlight a director's aesthetic. Kogonada regularly contributes to Sight & Sound and is often commissioned by The Criterion Collection to create supplemental videos for its home video releases. He has also written, directed and edited the feature films Columbus (2017) and After Yang (2021). He also directed two episodes of the Star Wars Disney+ series The Acolyte (2024).

Most Popular Kogonada Trailers

Total trailers found: 36

Restoring the Apu Trilogy Trailer (2015)

17 November 2015

In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Trailer (2025)

17 September 2025

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present.

Art-House America: Austin Film Society Trailer (2023)

01 May 2023

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to its edgy, eclectic roots.

Columbus Trailer (2017)

04 August 2017

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings.

Zi Trailer (2026)

24 January 2026

In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night -- and possibly her life.

After Yang Trailer (2022)

04 March 2022

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him.

Elemental Trailer (2015)

15 June 2015

40,000 years in the making: Kogonada's video essay created for The Connected Series.

What Is Neorealism? Trailer (2017)

07 July 2017

Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according to Italian director Vittorio De Sica, and the other according to Hollywood producer David O.

Once There Was Everything Trailer (2017)

14 August 2017

Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.

Wes Anderson: Centered Trailer (2014)

17 March 2014

As is made abundantly clear by this highly entertaining supercut of Wes Anderson’s films, the creator of such modern classics as The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Grand Budapest Hotel is a BIG fan of symmetry.

Godard in Fragments Trailer (2016)

10 February 2016

In the 1960s, pioneering French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard introduced the world to a new cinematic lexicon, generated from his innovative, auteurist style.

Lunch Line Trailer (2010)

18 May 2010

Reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the program's surprising past, uncertain present, and possible future.

Eyes of Hitchcock Trailer (2014)

26 September 2014

When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes of a victim, a murderer, a witness).

Sounds of Aronofsky Trailer (2012)

15 May 2012

Sound in film is often complimentary. Rarely does it suggest an aesthetic of its own. The punctuating, rhythmic soundscapes of Aronofsky are the exception.

Trick or Truth Trailer (2014)

30 October 2014

"I wanted to write a fantasy with the atomic bomb as the theme." – Nobuhiko Obayashi

The Eye & the Beholder Trailer (2014)

21 October 2014

A visual essay for "La dolce vita," directed by Kogonada for the Criterion Collection.

Against Tyranny: Video Essay on King of the Hill Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

Video Essay on King of the Hill

Hands of Bresson Trailer (2014)

17 June 2014

A visual essay on the tactile world of Robert Bresson created for the Criterion Collection.

BIFA: 15 Years Trailer (2013)

02 January 2013

On Solace Trailer (2015)

31 March 2015

Filmmaker ::kogonada explores director Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers," a film in three movements.

Auteur in Space Trailer (2015)

06 January 2015

A video essay on how Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris transcends science fiction.

Dreams of Cinema Trailer (2015)

18 August 2015

This new video essay by filmmaker Kogonada explores the many layers of director Francois Truffaut's masterpiece "Day for Night.

Mirrors of Bergman Trailer (2015)

12 February 2015

Filmmaker Kogonada reflects on women and mirrors in the films of Ingmar Bergman.

Way of Ozu Trailer (2016)

29 February 2016

Kogonada’s video essay showcases the similarities of the multiple films Yasujiro Ozu made in his lifetime.

Ozu: Passageways Trailer (2012)

19 December 2012

People constantly appear walking through passageways in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63).

The World According to Koreeda Hirokazu Trailer (2013)

18 February 2013

The cinema of Koreeda Hirokazu is defined by moments of everyday life. Whatever potential there is for heightened drama – the suicide of a husband, a cult massacre, abandoned children – it is diffused by the familiar rhythms of everydayness.

Young Arabs Trailer (2008)

18 June 2008

Young Arabs takes viewers inside an elite preparatory school in heart of Cairo, Egypt. The film offers a quiet encounter with a collection of students as they reflect on God, America, terrorism, marriage, the Middle East, and more.

The Way of Folk Trailer (2016)

19 January 2016

In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and the social and cultural ideas that it represented, the authenticity and the identity of folk music and the balance between the two, the future of folk music, etc.

Linklater: On Cinema and Time Trailer (2013)

04 December 2013

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in their DNA, as ongoing conversations with cinema, which is to say, with time itself.

Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective Trailer (2012)

29 August 2012

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

Tarantino: From Below Trailer (2012)

27 February 2012

Tarantino // From Below Music: Kaifuku Suru Kizu by Salyu

Criterion Designs Trailer (2014)

20 November 2014

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art commissioned by the Criterion Collection, including never-before-seen sketches and concept art.

Malick: Fire & Water Trailer (2013)

15 April 2013

Of all the recurring signatures of Malick, his use of fire and water might be the most telling, in part because there’s a significant shift between early Malick (Badlands & Days of Heaven) and later Malick (The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life & To the Wonder).

Wes Anderson: From Above Trailer (2017)

30 June 2017

A visual essay that highlights top-down shots from Wes Anderson's filmography.

Doors of Bresson Trailer (2026)

05 March 2026

A video essay by filmmaker Kogonada exploring the use of doors in the 13 feature films of Robert Bren

Columbus Story Trailer (2019)

26 March 2019

A short film about the history of Columbus, Indiana and how it became the Columbus of architects and artists.