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Sung-A Yoon
Yoon Sung-A is a French-Korean artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. She studied at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-Cergy Fine Arts school and INSAS in Brussels. Blending the conventions of documentary and narrative cinema, her work consists of hybrid films that resist easy categorisation.
In the 2000s, she made multiple videos, mainly shown in contemporary art venues, namely the Jeu de Paume, Busan Biennale, Le Plateau Art Center, Palais de Tokyo, Bernard Anthonioz Art Center, Bétonsalon gallery.
Her graduation short fiction film Et dans mon cœur j’emporterai (2008) was notably selected at Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, she travelled to South Korea in search of her long-lost father. During this time, she worked on her first documentary feature Full of Missing Links. Her second documentary Overseas premiered at Locarno Film Festival in 2019 and was awarded internationally.
Aside from her work in cinema and in contemporary art, Yoon was part of the selection committee of the former Belgian documentary film festival "Filmer à tout prix". Since 2015, she has been teaching filmmaking at Haute École Libre de Bruxelles.
At a training center in the Philippines, women are getting ready to work abroad as domestic workers or nannies. Through role playing exercises, they practice dealing with the homesickness and the abuses that they will possibly endure. A hybrid film about modern servitude in a globalized world.