Her practice extends to filmmaking, exploring the temporal threshold at which something is deemed "valid" and how its withdrawn function can be reclaimed.
With the theme of technological obsolescence and the paradox of permanence, she investigates how digital memory deteriorates while physical waste accumulates eternally.
Ki’s first short film as co-director, Wunderkammer 10.0 (2021), received the Special Jury Prize at Jeonju International Film Festival (2022).
Her work has been presented internationally at MMCA Seoul, e-flux Film & Video Festival, Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), Kurzfilmfestival Köln (KFFK), EXiS (Seoul Experimental Film and Video Festival), Asia Culture Center (ACC) Cinematheque, and more.
With the theme of technological obsolescence and the paradox of permanence, she investigates how digital memory deteriorates while physical waste accumulates eternally.
Ki’s first short film as co-director, Wunderkammer 10.0 (2021), received the Special Jury Prize at Jeonju International Film Festival (2022).
Her work has been presented internationally at MMCA Seoul, e-flux Film & Video Festival, Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), Kurzfilmfestival Köln (KFFK), EXiS (Seoul Experimental Film and Video Festival), Asia Culture Center (ACC) Cinematheque, and more.
SELECTION OF FILMS & COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
Heaven Machine
2026
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Combining a visual novel with 3D animation and 90s point-and-click gameplay, the film captures the feeling of control and the illusion of it within domestic networks and communication technology. The narrative is based on the pseudoscientific theory that a particular vibrating frequency can stimulate the human eyeball, causing hallucinations.
Princess
2024
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In a world where everyone lives forever, Xana struggles to recall his memories. An old tape machine becomes both an investigative tool and an obsolete artifact, capturing his collapsing sense of self.
Gnome
2023
99betaHUD (Jihyoung Han, Yelim Ki)
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Gnome is an audio-visual poem that quotes the words of an extinct Earth Spirit to tell the story of an alternative life in an off-grid community.
Wunderkammer10.0
2021
Co-Directed by
Inwoo Jung, Soyun Park, Yelim Ki
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In a virtual city of the future, the operating system Wunderkammer is created to provide a more stable and faster autonomous driving service. It crawls map data and learns by itself. Soon, it faces the limitations of data accessibility within a specific timeline; it starts digging online and finds a long-expired travel blog.
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The Cell(2025)
TACTICS (2023)
Fountantine (2022)
Vent (2021)