DDM Speakers: Dahee Jeong

Dahee Jeong shares how she got into animation, her thoughts on the creation of her short animated films, and the process of making them, especially her collaborations with France and Canada for her new film, Society of Clothes.

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Dahee Jeong is a Korean animation director based in Gwacheon, South Korea. Dahee studied Communication Design in Seoul, then relocated to France to study animation at the ENSAD in Paris at the graduate level. Her debut film, Man on the Chair (2014), was featured in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Cristal for Best Short Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The Empty (2016) has been screened at over 100 film festivals around the world, and won 17 awards. Movements(2019), was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and teaches in the department of Visual Communication Design at Hongik University.

This talk is funded by the Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media.