South Korea, 2025 | 3 min Director: Yonghee Kim 12+ Competition Animation
This work originated from a draft shaped by a sense of disillusionment with the beautiful and heartwarming narratives often found in animation, as well as the personal struggles of living as a vegetarian. It was created with the intention of pursuing a visual direction stripped of subjectivity — deliberately uncomfortable and unapologetically unfriendly. The title, HUMANISM, was chosen to reflect and challenge the deeply human-centered values the word implies. Through this work, I aim to raise the question: Are humans truly and inherently valuable above all else?
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Yonghee Kim (South Korea) A Korean animation director and motion designer bridging traditional and digital storytelling. His works explore identity, empathy and transformation through stylized visuals. In HUMANISM, he advances his experiments with narrative minimalism and visual symbolism, merging classical techniques with real-time workflows to provoke introspection.
