Exploring Alternative Storytelling Through Experimental Animation
Whispers of Colors
Animated Short, 2024
4 min
Joonho Kim (1965 ~), born and raised as a mixed-race child in the aftermath of the Korean War (1950 - 1953), recounts his feelings of being out of place and his longing for the American soldier father he never knew.
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Screenings
Upcoming 2025 Kotka Human Rights Film Festival, Kotka, Finland
Upcoming 2025 Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival, Houston, TX, USA
Upcoming 2025 San Francisco International Airport Museum, Video Arts Program, International Terminal Main Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA - Group exhibition (four films), Curated
2025 Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, Toronto, Canada
2025 52nd Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, The Athena Cinema, OH, USA
2025 Sundar Prize Film Festival, Landmark Cinemas Guildford, British Columbia, Canada *Best Animation Nominee
2025 20th DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, Art House, Eugene, OR, USA
2025 Oxford Film Festival, Malco Cinema Grill, Oxford, MS, USA
2025 AmDocs - American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA, USA
2025 SPE Media Festival (Society for Photographic Education), Reno, NV, USA
2024 Frame & Frequency IX, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD, USA
2024 Lowell Asian American Film Festival, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
2024 21st @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival, Napoli, Italy
Honors
2025 Best Short Shorts Film, SPE Media Festival (Society for Photographic Education), Reno, NV, USA
