Jeong Da-hee

Directing

Jeong Da-hee

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Jeong Dahee is a Korean animation director based in Seoul. She was educated at Hongik University in Seoul and got a BA in Communication Design. Went to Paris and got a Master’s in Animation at the ENSAD. Her first film, Man on the Chair (2014), was presented at the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival, won the Cristal Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The Empty (2016) won the Grand Prix at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and was screened at over 100 film festivals around the world. She was invited to the animation residency at Fontevraud Abbey, France in 2013 and in 2017, also invited to the mentoring residency at the Cinémathèque québé…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

10 ans de résidence à l'Abbaye de Fontevraud poster
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NEF Animation (nefanimation.fr) and Fontevraud Abbey are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fontevraud International Writing Residency for Animated Film in October 2017. A book and DVD set is being released for the occasion, featuring fifteen animated short films written during residencies at Fontevraud Abbey. Fifteen films, fifteen perspectives, fifteen worlds, presented in a video medley lasting a few minutes.

10 ans de résidence à l'Abbaye de Fontevraud

2017

Society of Clothes poster
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When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, shirts and pants step outside the closet, transforming into living entities. In the world of the film, everyone exists solely as clothes, wandering into the streets bodiless and faceless. But the routine of this strange place is disrupted one day when a human child with flesh and bones appears, turning their everyday existence upside down.

Society of Clothes

2024

Society of Clothes poster
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When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, shirts and pants step outside the closet, transforming into living entities. In the world of the film, everyone exists solely as clothes, wandering into the streets bodiless and faceless. But the routine of this strange place is disrupted one day when a human child with flesh and bones appears, turning their everyday existence upside down.

Society of Clothes

2024

Society of Clothes poster
NR

When morning arrives in Society of Clothes, shirts and pants step outside the closet, transforming into living entities. In the world of the film, everyone exists solely as clothes, wandering into the streets bodiless and faceless. But the routine of this strange place is disrupted one day when a human child with flesh and bones appears, turning their everyday existence upside down.

Society of Clothes

2024

The Empty poster
5.5

In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games with woman’s memories.

The Empty

2016

The Empty poster
5.5

In the woman’s room, memories constantly accumulate and disappear like dust. The man spends his time in this room creating futile little games with woman’s memories.

The Empty

2016

Le temps de l’arbre poster
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A collection of stories which explore the differences and resemblances between the life cycles of trees and humans.

Le temps de l’arbre

2012

Man on the Chair poster
6.0

“Man on the chair” is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.

Man on the Chair

2014

Man on the Chair poster
6.0

“Man on the chair” is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.

Man on the Chair

2014

Reflection Typo poster
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The body is used to create the alphabet.

Reflection Typo

2010

One Thousand Buddhas poster
7.0

A monk carves one thousand Buddha statues throughout the year to enter nirvana.

One Thousand Buddhas

2014

Movements poster
4.5

In the space of 10 minutes, the African baobab tree grows 0.008 mm, the fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can run 12 km, and the Earth travels 18,000 km around the Sun. "Movements" is a 10-minute film which I drew at a rate of 2 seconds of animation per day. We are all walking, seeing, working, running, and stopping together.

Movements

2019

Movements poster
4.5

In the space of 10 minutes, the African baobab tree grows 0.008 mm, the fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can run 12 km, and the Earth travels 18,000 km around the Sun. "Movements" is a 10-minute film which I drew at a rate of 2 seconds of animation per day. We are all walking, seeing, working, running, and stopping together.

Movements

2019

The Black Room poster
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Everyday, the main character, who is confined in a dark room, sees sunlight coming through the window: he flees from the closed place to an infinite one.

The Black Room

2011