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Emily Jisoo Bowles’s Biography

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Emily Jisoo Bowles is a British-Korean film critic, translator, and film programmer based in London. They are an alumni of Young Critics Workshop Film Fest Gent 2024, Media Outreach and Inclusion Scheme at IFFR 2025, European Workshop for Film Criticism #7, Jury member of Five Flavours Festival 2025.

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Reading Through Loss: Archival Film Practices at IFFR 2025 - Ultra Dogme

Reading Through Loss: Archival Film Practices at IFFR 2025 - Ultra Dogme

Emily Jisoo Bowles on 3 films that screened at this year's IFFR, which use found footage to interrogate histo…

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Resistance as Ritual - Talking Shorts

Resistance as Ritual - Talking Shorts

Amidst the most documented genocide in history, Noor Abed's cinema presents Palestinian resistance as a repea…

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Of actors and activists

Of actors and activists

Can festivals provide more than just a pseudo-neutral platform for commodified resistance?

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Save the Green Planet 21 years on : Interview with Jang Joon-hwan

Save the Green Planet 21 years on : Interview with Jang Joon-hwan

I meet director Jang Joon-hwan at the BFI Southbank before the screening of his explosive film to ask him how…

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Young Critics review: Maldoror

Young Critics review: Maldoror

During the Young Critics Workshop, organised in collaboration with photogénie , at the 51st edition of Film F…

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Sensitive Content | Emily Jisoo Bowles

Sensitive Content | Emily Jisoo Bowles

Curated by Inge Coolsaet for argos, the short film programme "Sensitive Content" probes the uneasy politics o…

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Sleeping with the Enemy: The Handmaiden at 10

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By Emily Jisoo Bowles
| Little White Lies Verified
Sleeping with the Enemy: The Handmaiden at 10 On the anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender and the end of colonial rule in Korea, we examine how Park Chan-wook folds political critique into the visual pleasures of his erotic thriller. On the anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender and the end of colonial rule in Korea, we examine how Park Chan-wook folds political critique into the visual pleasures of his erotic thriller.
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Things That Can Never Be Assimilated: Basma al-Sharif on Morgenkreis

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By Emily Jisoo Bowles, Rebecka Öhrström Kann
| Another Gaze Journal Verified
In Basma al-Sharif's Morgenkreis (Morning Circle, 2025), the camera adopts the point of view of an immigration officer, circling an Armenian father in his flat in present-day Berlin. “WHY DID YOU COME TO GERMANY?” demands an unidentified voiceover in German, its hostility amplified by the capitalisation of the subtitles. “HAVE YOU TRIED LEARNING GERMAN, MR ABRAHAMYAN?” The interrogation continues.
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Open City 2026: Watching Films Experimentally

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By Emily Jisoo Bowles
| Documentary Magazine Verified
Ricardo Matos Cabo introduces Pop Out Balsam Seeds! – My Chikuhō, My Korea. Photo credit: Virginia Park. All stills and photos courtesy of Open City The 16th edition continued the London fest’s commitment to experimental works as well as archival presentations that insist on their own urgency Usually relegated to a festival sidebar, experimental film sat center stage at the 16th edition of Open City Documentary Festival, which took place in London for five days in April, 2026.
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