Hangjun Lee is a filmmaker and curator who also works as a program director at EXiS festival in Seoul. His works are based on multi-projection and optical sound, focused on projector improvisation since the mid 2000s, collaborating with Ryu Hankil, Martin Tétreault, Jérôme Noetinger, Will Guthrie, Alan Corutis. His films have been shown at various venues, including the Issue Project Room(NY, USA), South Bank Centre & Cafe OTO (London, UK), BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium) and Netmage10 (Bologna, Italy) and have been distributed by Light Cone in Paris (France).
He also has curated screening and live media programs such as Cinematic Divergence (2013) and Mujanhyang (2014) for the National Museum of Contemporary Arts in Seoul and Embeddedness: Artist Films and Videos from Korea 1960’s to Now (2015) for the Tate Modern in London. He has contributed to several contemporary arts magazines in China, Taiwan and South Korea, and has participated in artist residency programes at LIFT (Toronto), No.w.here (London), MTK (Grenoble), and MIRE (Nantes), ARKO Art Center C-Lab(Arco Art Center, Seoul) etc. Since 2006 he has been working on an audiovisual research project, “Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph” in collaboration with Hong Chulki, a noise improviser. Their collaboration stimulated critical investigations into the performativity of practices in the darkroom, the screening room, the private recording/ practicing studio, and the public performance spaces utilized for the improvising musician.

Selected Performance & related activities (2015~)

After Psycho Shower & Phantom Schoolgirl Army with Hong Chulki
MUSEO NITSCH NAPOLI, 22 JUNE, 2017, ITALY

Optical Sound Workshop & Performance
ERG SÉMINAIRE/ATELIER_AFTER EMPIRE : MELANCHOLIA OR CONVIVIAL CULTURE, 31 JAN, 2017,BRUSSELS

Film Walk & Phantom Schoolgirl Army
with Jérôme Noetinger & Phillipp Ernsting
ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL, 28 JAN, 2017,ROTTERDAM

Lecture & Workshop
BEIJING FILM ACADEMY, DEC, 2016,BEIJING,CHINA

Lecture
CENTRAL FINE ART ACADEMY(CAFA) BEIJING, DEC, 2016, CHINA

Film walk with Jérôme Noetinger
PERPETUAL MOTION, SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE, 22 NOV, 2016, USA

Phantom schoolgirl Army with Alan Courtis
MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO DE BUENOS AIRES, 4 NOV, 2016, ARGENTINA

A Lecture & The Film Prayer with Yoo, Un-Seong
KOREAN FILM ARCHIVE, 2016, SOUTH KOREA

EXPANDED CELLULOID, EXTENDED PHONOGRAPH
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, 25 JAN, NY, 2016, USA

Film Walk & Phantom Schoolgirl Army with Hong, Chulki
Co-presented by the Smart Museum of Art and Lampo
LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS,23 JAN, CHICAGO, 2016, USA

Multiple Projection Films and Performance with Martin Tétreault
DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE, LA SALA ROSSA, 19 JAN, MONTREAL, 2016, CANADA

Lecture
LUX MRES PUBLIC LECTURE,LUX, 21 SEP, LONDON, 2015, UK

The Film Prayer with Yoo, Un-Seong (안무사회展)
NAM JUNE PAIK ART CENTER, 11 JULY, 2015, SOUTH KOREA

Film Walk with Will Guthrie
CAFE OTO, 19 MAY, LONDON, 2015, UK