“Beyond her scenes, there lies a narrative.”
“The feminine figure, the city, and the aesthetics of East and West.”

Rooted in a visual way of perceiving the world, Rose Hayoung Kim channels it into creations that exist somewhere between ‘cinema’ and a ‘moving Vogue’ — works through which she seeks to define her own aesthetic language.The contrast between East (especially East Asia) and West (Europe, particularly the French sensibility) — a beauty she has long been drawn to — forms the core of her unified visual identity. Feminine elements, female protagonists, and outsider characters placed in unfamiliar cities often become the center of her narratives — a natural result of her gaze.

As acting pursued her, she fell into it unexpectedly, and her admiration for cinema slowly seeped into her life. In her pursuit of the desire to exist within it, her work began from a feeling she could no longer resist — the kind that does not allow her not to create.

With her actress and filmmaker background, some of her works begin as written pieces — stories born from specific places or cities that visually inspire her. They are conceived with the premise that they must one day be visualized as film. She builds narratives, then captures parts of them through her own lens, leaving behind layered still and motion works. The rest of her creative process starts the other way around — the aesthetic scenes that she filmed lead her to write the logline and develop as the screenplay. Her scripts are basically the visual description of scenes she already sees in her mind, almost like painting. They cannot be written otherwise. 

In this way, the moving images she creates are fragments of writing, and still images are fragments of moving images — her work ultimately intertwining with cinema itself as a composite art form. Her art does not begin from strict plans, but from lived experiences — for example, an unexpected stay in Paris, or a place that happened to catch her eye. From such moments, she begins: relocating herself across cities, taking visual inspiration, making and starring the scenes, and building narrative settings as screenplays.