ellie koo 𓆝⋆. ellie koo 𓆝⋆.
Ellie Yaejin Koo (b. Incheon, 2002) is a filmmaker, educator, and artist based on Lenapehoking land (Philadelphia, PA).
Their work explores the Korean-American identity, Diasporic Ecologies, Personal Memory, and Language. They currently attend Temple University for an MFA in Film and Media Arts.
Their tea of choice at the moment is sweet jeju tangerine with honey. Best enjoyed with a savory pastry, something buttery. serve iced.
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SELECTED WORK
Pa-do (Waves) | 2026
4-Channel Video, Audio, Bojagi Cloth, TC2 Weaving
Pa-Do (Waves) combines quilted and filmic storytelling to conjure a countermemory to popular American narratives of the Korean people’s autonomy. As the archive and scratched writing emerges from waves framed in the windows of the fabric’s form, the piece transforms the sea into a landscape of history, memory, and dreams of a liberated Korean state from US Military control.
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Appa Nae Ba-da (work in progress)
16mm to Digital + Video
Where the sea meets the sky, Korea is imagined. Appa Nae Ba-da is an experimental documentary that explores the inheritance of connection with the ocean from the filmmaker’s father, a Korean immigrant who remembers home in the water.
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I Dreamt of a Plastic Sea | 2025
5-Channel Installation, Audio
A myth about robotic fish that live in the Lotte Tower. A survey of gardens of red surf. A bath is taken in a potion of glitter. A poem about traveling microplastics.
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Gu-Neon (Nine Years) | 2024
16mm to Digital + Video
On the coming of age as a Korean immigrant after nine years of imagining away from the homeland, reflecting on the distancing from a cultural childhood and grieving the memories that were never made.
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NuGuSaeYo (Who are you?) | 2022
16mm to Digital
Within a taemong (a Korean conception dream), symbols appear to predict conflicting binary genders for the coming child.
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