Born in 1977, Hangjun Lee is a filmmaker and independent curator who also works as a programmer at Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS). His works are based on multi-projection and optical sound, often involving improvisations with a variety of artists. The majority of his films have been shown at various venues including the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), 102 (France), South Bank Centre (UK), Cafe OTO (UK), LUFF (Switzerland), BOZAR (Belgium) and Netmage10 (Italy) and have been distributed by Light Cone in Paris (France). He has contributed to several contemporary arts magazines in China, Taiwan and South Korea, and has participated in artist residency programmes at LIFT (Toronto), No.w.here (London), MTK (Grenoble), and MIRE (Nantes).
Since 2006 he has been working on an audiovisual research project, “Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph” in collaboration with Hong Chulki, a noise improviser. Their collaboration stimulated critical investigations into the performativity of practices in the darkroom, the screening room, the private recording/ practicing studio, and the public performance spaces utilised for the improvising musician. Recently he presented a solo exhibition titled Siting Cinema at (KunstDoc Gallery) and 400 Years in 4 Minutes (Factory Gallery) both South Korea.
