Films from the Korean Diaspora Series: Heung-soon IM Lecture by Director Im : “Things That Do Us Part: Belief, Fear, Faith, Betrayal, Love, Hatred, Ghost” Bio: Heung-soon IM (South Korea, 1969) is a visual artist and cinema director based in Seoul. Since his early works on his own working-class family, he has explored the lives of people marginalized in social, political, capitalist, and national contexts. His political yet emotional works are embodied through different visual mediums such as photography, installations, cinema, and public art, as well as community art. His first feature film is Jeju Prayer (2012), which explored the painful and lasting legacy of the Jeju Uprising (March 1948). His second feature film, Factory Complex (2014) premiered at the Wide Angle Feature Documentary section of the 2014 Busan International Film Festival and at many other venues. It was later awarded the Silver Lion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. Recently, his works were exhibited at the Pompidou Centre, Paris (2016), the Lincoln Center, New York (2016), àngels barcelona (2015), Tate Modern, London (2015), The National Art Center, Tokyo (2015), the Sharjah Biennale (2015) and at MoMA PS1, New York (2015), among others.