Il Sun Moon

Artist-Researcher exploring atmosphere, diaristic video, and installation

London, UKcontact@moonilsun.com

Profile

Il Sun Moon is a London-based moving image artist whose work explores the poetics of dailiness, atmosphere and fragmented subjectivity. Rooted in experimental diary filmmaking, her practice draws on portable devices and non-linear montage to trace the subtle textures of everyday life. She recently completed a practice-based PhD in Film and Photography at Kingston University London, where her research examined diaristic image-making as a site of affective and perceptual transformation.

Her practice interrogates the tools and editing to question how they choreograph performative encounters with the image. Working with a diagrammatic methodology, she seeks to chart new maps of movement, extending beyond the screen towards potential spatial forms. Her films have been shown in the UK, often as multiscreen constellations, visual essays or visual diaries. Operating at the intersection of the personal and the spatial, the work attends to minor rhythms—light, breath, weather, footsteps—and to the atmospheric tensions that shape how we sense, move and inhabit the world.

Education and Qualifications

  • PhD, Film Research, Kingston University London, London, UK
    2020–2024
  • MRes, Communication Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK
    2019–2020
  • MA, Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, UK
    2016–2018
  • BA, Visual Communication Design, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
    2009–2013
  • BA, Advertising, Qingdao University, Shandong, China
    2004–2008

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer (HPL)
    @ Kingston University London
    2025–
    London

    https://www.kingston.ac.uk/about/staff/dr-il-sun-moon

    Teaching Digital Storytelling, Digital Media Practices, and Issues in Contemporary Media Environments in the Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media. Drawing on methodology development from doctoral research to guide students in building their own critical and creative foundations through digital narrative practice.

Exhibitions and Screenings

  • Reimagining Post-Cinematic Environments: Embodied Media, Feminist Materialism, and Posthuman Futures · BLOC, Queen Mary University of London (London) · Group Show · 2026
  • The Mould (2025) · Atmosphere and Sensation Screening (London) · Group Screening · 2024
  • Diaristic Atmosphere · The Penny Gallery (London) · Solo Exhibition · 2024
  • Dailiness and Atmosphere · Stanley Picker Gallery (London) · Solo Exhibition · 2023
  • Where is My Journey (2021) · Millennium Film Workshop (Online) · Group Screening · 2022
  • Where is My Journey (2021) · Visibility of the Invisible, Stanley Picker Gallery (London, UK) · Group Show · 2022
  • Possible Probable Preferable · Filet Gallery (London) · Group Show · 2022
  • se(e)a in Touching · On The White Wall (London, UK) · Group Show · 2020
  • Noise in Color · Make/Shift Visual Artist, Barbican Centre (London, UK) · Group Show · 2017

Selected Works

  • A Diary · 2024 — 40 min, digital film
  • The Mould Series, 024 · 2024 — digital video
  • The Mould Series · 2024 — Series of Works, Generative Moving Image
  • Every Eighty Seconds · 2024 — ongoing, Youtube channel
  • Diaristic Project · 2023 — Ongoing, Seriese
  • Where is My Journey · 2021 — digital video
  • Se(e)a in Touching · 2020 — digital film, generated sound, 5 min
  • Moving Diagram: Drawing the Map Around the Overground · 2020 — digital film
  • Frame Space · 2017 — video installation

Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles

Book Reviews

  • Moon, I. S. (2026) ‘Review: Matthew Thompson. 2026. Vampires in Interactive Media: Playing Dead. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-3995-2910-5’. Interactive Film and Media Journal.

Conference Presentations

  • Moon, I. S. (2025) ‘Atmospheric Dailiness: Diaristic Practice and Performative Camera in the Experimental Moving Image’. Film-Philosophy conference, 2025.
  • Moon, I. S. (2024) ‘Atmospheric Dailiness: The Diagrammatic Relationship between Contingency and Chaos in the Experimental Film’. KRUK Seminar, 2024.
  • Moon, I. S. (2023) ‘Atmospheric Diagram: Exploration of Diaristic Moving Image in Experimental Artistic Practice’. DRHA Conference 2023, 2023.
  • Moon, I. S. (2022) ‘A Map of Montage Frame’. Place & Placelessness in a Planetary Age Conference, 2022.

Service and Esteem

  • Organising Committee Member,

    Interactive Film & Media Conference, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024–present. Contributing across the call for papers and conference theme, programme planning and scheduling, abstract review and selection, and conference communications, including managing the conference’s Bluesky channel. Coordinating the volunteer team during the event.

  • Session Facilitator,

    7th & 8th Interactive Film & Media Conference, 2025, 2026.

  • Interactive Film and Media Journal, 2025.,

    Interactive Film and Media Journal, 2025.

  • Organiser,

    Atmosphere and Sensation Screening, London, 2024. A one-day group screening programmed and organised independently.

References

  • Corin Depper, Kingston University London.