Good Looks Kill

In 2020, Hankyul directed Toronto musician lemin.’s music video for her track “Good Looks Kill” on her new album ‘Petey Passed Away’. This experience was one of the most creatively challenging and rewarding projects of her career. Having directed campaigns in the past as an art director, this was a natural step towards her passion in direction and design. From creating treatments, to scripting and storyboarding, to assigning DPs and costume designers, she was able to bring her and lemin.’s collaborative vision to life: a dream-like intimate moment between two lovers.

DIRECTOR Hankyul Oh

CINEMATOGRAPHER Wyatt Clough

PRODUCER Kelsey-Lynn Corradetti

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Yazmin Butcher

STYLIST Mary Chen

WARDROBE DESIGN Gabriel Ting, Madeleine LeBlanc

HMU Kelly Davidson, Matthew King

EDITOR Julie Simmons

COLOUR Erik Bayley [Alter Ego]

Mother Tongue

In 2022, Hankyul worked with canadian filmmaker Shelly J. Hong on ‘Mother Tongue’ as both art director and production designer. Inspired by the director’s personal experiences as a child of a Korean-immigrant family, Hankyul connected deeply with the script and was able to translate words into a visual language that brought the story’s pages to life in an authentic way. Despite the short’s independent budget and a pandemic timeline, Hankyul worked closely with the cast and crew (lots of zoom meetings) from pre to post to ensure that her and the director’s collective vision translated throroughly for the big screen. Ultimately premiered at Toronto’s Blood in the Snow Film Festival, the film is still circulating in festivals and is currently unavailable for public viewing.