Yongha James Hwang

2025

I injured my right hand, and I live with my left hand for a while. I attend a Japanese language school with friends from Myanmar, and I go to meet a white dog. My left hand is awkward and imprecise as a foreign language. The left hand temporarily forgets the lives left behind by the right hand, offers food to the white dog, and slowly traces things that the right hand cannot reach.

Yongha James Hwang
Japan, South Korea
2025
11 min
European Premiere

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Yongha James Hwang (1997, South Korea) is making moving images based in Tokyo. He is currently studying at Image Forum Institute of Moving Image. He dropped out of a chemistry program in the U.S. and started writing poetry in Korea. His work explores language and decentered imagery through documentary-based moving images. Drawing on poetry, he is interested in diaristic works built from personal archives. His 2025 film The Opposite of Tadashii is Left received the Best Film Award at the Beijing International Short Film Festival.