The Academy Museum of Movement Photos is celebrating filmmaker Bong Joon Ho with a brand new exhibition devoted to his inventive improvement.
IndieWire can announce that beginning March 23, the Academy Museum will exhibit Bong as a part of the “Director’s Inspiration” gallery. Agnés Varda was the earlier auteur honored with the museum sequence.
The Director’s Inspiration gallery “focuses on the filmography and cinematic influences of a director who has established a story and visible model that’s unmistakably their very own, traceable by way of our bodies of labor that turn out to be touchstones for different filmmakers,” based on the Academy Museum web site.
“Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho” will spotlight the “Mickey 17” director’s inventive course of, filmography, and cinematic influences. The exhibit will embody greater than 100 unique objects from storyboards and analysis supplies to movie posters, idea artwork, creature fashions, props, and on-set images, all from Bong’s archive and private assortment.
“Whether or not set in Nineteen Eighties Korea or an imagined future time and house, Bong Joon Ho’s movies deal with points which can be transnational and common: class disparity, social injustice, the environmental disaster, and political and ethical corruption. His protagonists are on a regular basis individuals — unlikely heroes — who confront the absurdities of recent life,” the outline reads. “From his earliest quick movies to his worldwide breakthrough, ‘The Host’ (Republic of Korea, 2006), by way of the Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ (Republic of Korea, 2019), Bong Joon Ho’s work defies easy categorization, embedding social critique into deeply humorous, surprising, and thought-provoking tales.”
“Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho” is curated by Exhibitions Curator Michelle Puetz, with the help of Assistant Curator Nicholas Barlow, Analysis Assistants Josue Lopez and Jeongsil Yoon, and former Getty Marrow Curatorial Intern Janice Kim.
The exhibition will run from March 23, 2025 to January 10, 2027, and will likely be accompanied by a screening sequence that launches the weekend of March 22 with “Parasite” (2019) and “Okja” (2017). Bong will likely be in attendance.
The spring 2025 season on the Academy Museum of Movement Photos may also host exhibit “‘Barbie’ to ‘Anna Karenina’: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer.” Greenwood and Spencer famously designed the story, directorial imaginative and prescient, and characters of movies equivalent to “Barbie” (2023), “Anna Karenina” (2012) and “Magnificence and the Beast” (2017). The duo have labored collectively for greater than 25 years on over 20 characteristic movies. Collectively, they’ve been nominated for seven Oscars for his or her movies beginning with “Delight & Prejudice” in 2005, adopted by “Atonement” (2007), “Sherlock Holmes” (2010), “Anna Karenina” (2012), “Magnificence and the Beast” (2017), “Darkest Hour” (2017), and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” (2023).
“‘Barbie’ to ‘Anna Karenina’: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer” is curated by Exhibitions Curator Michelle Puetz, with the help of Curatorial Assistants Simran Bhalla and Alexandra James Salichs and former Curatorial Assistant Manouchka Labouba. The exhibition will run from Could 23, 2025 to October 25, 2026.
“These exhibitions showcase how the Academy Museum collaborates with world-renowned filmmakers to deliver perception and deepened understanding to their inventive processes,” Amy Homma, Academy Museum Director and President, stated. “I’m so excited for the general public to have a good time and discover the imaginations and brilliance of Bong Joon Ho, Sarah Greenwood, and Katie Spencer. These exhibitions will showcase the unimaginable variety of voices, tales, and cultures which have formed the film business and the worldwide movie group.”
Exhibitions Curator Michelle Puetz added, “By unprecedented entry to supplies from his private archive, ‘Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho’ invitations guests to discover his inventive course of by way of manufacturing supplies and the movies that the majority encourage him. ‘”Barbie” to “Anna Karenina”: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer’ gives a firsthand look into the duo’s creative imaginative and prescient and uniquely collaborative inventive course of — showcasing how they create cinematic worlds to life, from idea to actuality.”