Heehyun Choi

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Heehyun Choi
최희현

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.

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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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