Banpark Jieun
Banpark Jieun is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and visual artist. She is based in Seoul and Berlin.
Jieun's first feature documentary Life Unrehearsed screened at the Busan International Film Festival and won the New Choice Award at the 48th Seoul Independent Film Festival.
She studied Fine Arts in Seoul and Narrative Film at the University of the Arts Berlin under Thomas Arslan.
Jieun continues to make artwork from a queer feminist perspective. Beginning with an interest in the socially marginalized and forgotten, her work exists to question socially and systemically solid notions of society that are difficult to challenge. In particular, she documents what is old and marginalized and forgotten from memory, what is culled from the race of capitalist society, and what is beautiful and useless.
반박지은은 다큐멘터리 영화감독이자 제작자, 시각예술가이다. 서울과 베를린을 오가며 활동 중이다.
반박지은의 첫 장편 다큐멘터리 <두 사람>은 부산국제영화제에서 상영되었고, 48회 서울독립영화제에서 새로운 선택상을 받았다.
서울에 있는 대학에서 미술을 공부하고, 베를린에 있는 베를린예술대학에서 예술과 미디어과의 내러티브 필름을 Thomas Arslan 교수와 전공했다.
그는 퀴어페미니즘의 시각으로 만든 작품을 지속해오고있다. 지은의 작업은 사회적으로 소외되고 잊혀져가는 것에 대한 관심을 시작으로, 사회적, 시스템적으로 거스르기 힘든 견고한 사회의 관념에 질문을 던지기 위해 존재한다. 특히 오래되고 소외되어 기억에서 잊혀져가는 것에 대해, 자본주의 사회의 경주에서 도태되어 버린 것에 대해, 아름답고 쓸모없는 것에 대해 기록한다.
Education
2023
Absolvent in Art and Media, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
2011
BFA in Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2024 Internationales Frauen Film Fest, Odeon Köln, Cologne, Germany
2024 CinemAsia Film Festival, Studio/K - Rialto VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 We Were Always Here - LGBTQ+ History Month by Queer East, London, UK
2023 Women's Film Festival in Gwangju, Korea
2023 Urban Film Festival, University of Seoul, Korea
2023 Vinokino - Toisin katsoen, Korjaamo Kino, Helsinki / Kino Diana, Turku, Finnland
2023 Beautiful Hapcheon Independent Film Festival, Hapcheon, Korea
2023 Asian Queer Festival, Grüner Salon, Berlin, Germany
2023 Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2023 FilmFestival for Women's rights, Artnine, Seoul, Korea
2023 PrideFull Fest, Firehouse, NYC, USA
2023 ChunCheon Film Festival, MEGABOX NamChunCheon, ChunCheon, Korea
2023 Seoul International Women's Film Festival, MEGABOX SangamWorldcup, Seoul, Korea
2023 Incheon Women's Film Festival, Cinespace Juan, Incheon, Korea
2023 Seoul Independent Women's Film Festival, Arirang Cinecenter, Seoul, Korea
2023 Diaspora Film Festival, Incheon Art Platform, Ae Kwan Theater, Incheon, Korea
2023 Daegu Queer Film Festival, 55Cine, Daegu, Korea
2023 Seoul International Senior Film Festival, Daehan Cinema, Seoul, Korea
2023 BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, London, UK
2022 Seoul Independent Film Festival, CGV Apgujeong, Seoul, Korea
2022 Incheon Human Rights Film Festival, Cinespace Juan, Incheon, Korea
2022 Busan International Film Festival, CGV Centum City / Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque, Busan, Korea
2021 Fault Line: Strike-Slip at fluctoplasma, Thalia Gaußstraße, Hamburg, Germany
2021 Sieben Frauen im Videoporträt-Frauenmärz, Museen Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
2020 Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin, Movimento, Berlin, Germany
2019 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, KulturBrauerei, Berlin, Germany
2019 Seoul International Newmedia Festival, Lotte Cinema, Hongik Univ., Seoul, Korea
2019 OpenEyes Filmfest, Theater Neben Dem Trum, Marburg, Germany
2019 International Documentary Film Festival 'It's All True', São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019 Dreisam, Offener Kunstverein Potsdam, Germany
2018 Seoul Independent Film Festival, CGV Apgujeong, Seoul, Korea
2015 Korea Queer Film Festival, Lotte Cinema Sinsa, Seoul, Korea
2015 3355 Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2014 Korea Queer Film Festival, Sungmisan Theater, Seoul, Korea
2013 Here Come Queer, Gallery Toma, Daegue, Korea
2010 Put, Seoul, Korea
Publications
2016 The Story about Making Independent Films, Seoul
2013 Finding Sea Horses, Sam, Seoul
2013 People like us, Seoul
Projects
2020 Project 'StilBruch - Empowern, Begegnen und Verstehen', GePGeMi e.V.
2013 People like us, Seoul
2011 Here Comes Lesbians!, Lesbian Artivist Group [ITDA]
Awards
2023 Life Unrehearsed, Audience Award at the 5th Seoul Independent Women's Film Festival
2022 Life Unrehearsed, New Choice Award at the 48th Seoul Independent Film Festival
2022 Life Unrehearsed, SJM Cultural Foundation RoughCut Booster
2022 Life Unrehearsed, EIDF First Cut Choice
2021 Life Unrehearsed, SIWFF Award in Pitch&Catch at the 23rd Seoul International Women Film Festival
Other Careers
Since 2023 GePGeMi e.V., Berlin, Germany
2023 Construction work, Open air cinema by Yorck-kino, Berlin, Germany
2022 Sound Recorder, PEN, Web Series
Since 2022 Producer, Guest Workers, Documentary film
2010-2016 Staff, Seoul Queer Culture Festival, Korea
2015 Producer, The Jinju Hair Salon, Film
2013 Title Designer, Music, What to Say, Film
2013 Staff, Mapo Rainbow Residents's Solidarity, Seoul, Korea
2011-2013 Executive secretary, Medics with Vietnam and Peace
2011 Patent design analysis team, Wips
2009-2011 Editor, Cartoonist, Rainbow Ring Magazine