Heehyun Choi

Known for: Directing

Heehyun Choi is a moving image artist and educator from Seoul, South Korea, whose practice is grounded on the interest in the physicality and virtuality in projected images, the unseen beings outside the camera frame, and the subjectivity and variability of the act of seeing. Choi received her MFA in Film & Video at California Institute of the Arts. Her films have been screened internationally including at 25 FPS Festival, Images Festival, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), and Ann Arbor Film Festival where she received the Mariam Ghani Juror Award. She is the receipient of WNDX x NIMAC Experimental Moving Image Award, AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship, Alison Doerner Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking, and The Lightning Fund by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.