Based in Cologne/Seoul
hanigimnaworks@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/hani_gimna/
Gérard Lucas
Link to the whole film : https://vimeo.com/883256392
Hani Gimna (b. 1993, Busan, South Korea; she/her) is a visual artist and experimental performance filmmaker. Her work explores themes of multilingualism, schizophrenic-poetic wordplay, and neurotic/psychotic symptoms, reflecting her experiences as a neurodivergent immigrant woman.
She is mainly interested in how medium and methodologies produce stories and meanings. Her artistic practice centers on the reciprocal relationship between act of filming and narrative: how the mediating role of camera generates narratives, and on the other way around, how a performative narrative structures the act of filming.
A multitude of characters — AI image generators, historical figures, fictional characters from novels, and those born from fragmented experiences in her real life — encounter one another on various levels in her works. She uses a unique way of manipulating digital devices, creating an unconventional interplay between choreographed camera movements and the roles of crew-performers. Her work captures moments where theatrical elements trigger the audience’s imaginative power, shared experiences akin to positive hallucinations. By translating these moments from the stage into the cinematic realm, she investigates the dynamic chemistry that arises when the grammar of one medium is translated into another.