Yeong Ran Kim
Yeong Ran Kim is an independent filmmaker and currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at the New School. Since 2005, she has directed and co-produced five, short and feature films, with the most recent work, Red Maria that examines the intersection of global capitalism and working class women’s lives in Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. She graduated from the Department of Anthropology at Seoul National University and subsequently won Japanese government sponsored research scholarship in the Graduate Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo during 2009-2010. Critically engaging in the politics of knowledge production, she explores a sensory ethnography and media technologies in its practice and theory. You can see and hear her recent work at http://brooklynsound.site40.net/