A second chance to explore a selection of Hong Sangsoo's work from our recent major retrospective, The Human Comedy.

With his incisive and humorous explorations of infidelity, artistic endeavour, and communication (or lack thereof), South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo's narratively concise and formally radical work has marked him out as not only contemporary cinema’s most prolific filmmaker but also its most inventive.

Thursday 2 January, 8.30pm
Oki's Movie
Comprising four short films, Hong Sangsoo's eleventh feature centres upon a love triangle between a film student called Oki and the two men vying for her affection. 



Friday 3 January, 8.30pm
The Day He Arrives
Déja vu abounds in Hong Sangsoo's tale of a former film director returning to Seoul and finding himself in a seemingly inescapable loop of reconnections, drunken dialogues and romantic entanglements.




Saturday 4 January, 4.40pm
Right Now, Wrong Then
A film of two halves, Hong Sangsoo's first collaboration with Kim Minhee is both a radical culmination of his explorations with repetition and a profoundly beautiful portrait of the roles imagination and truth play in both art and love.



Sunday 5 January, 5.15pm
On the Beach at Night Alone
With an incredibly raw and vulnerable performance from Kim Minhee at its center, Hong Sangsoo embraces emotional directness in this quietly devastating tale of an actress reeling from an affair with a married director.



Tuesday 7 January, 8.40pm
Hotel by the River
Shot in stunning black and white with an unusually handheld camera, Hong Sangsoo's Hotel by the River is a powerful meditation on family and death set in the stunning snowy environs of the Han river.



Wednesday 8 January, 6.30pm
The Novelist's Film
Sketched in charcoal blacks and bleached whites, The Novelist's Film centres upon a disenchanted novelist whose visit to an old friend leads to a number of chance encounters. Personal and profound, Hong Sangsoo's 27th feature is an eternally inquisitive ode to the artistic process.



Thursday 9 January, 8.45pm
Walk Up
In his ninth collaboration with Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays a film director visiting a building owned by an old friend, with his daughter. From this simple premise Hong constructs perhaps his most temporally and spatially complex film, one that explores loneliness, mortality, and the inevitable passage of time.