Il Sun Moon

Artist-Researcher exploring atmosphere, diaristic video, and installation

London, UKContact

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
    2020–2024
  • MRes, Communication Design — Royal College of Art
    2019–2020
  • MA, Graphic Communication Design — Central Saint Martins, UAL
    2016–2018
  • BA, Visual Communication Design — Musashino Art University
    2009–2013
  • BA, Advertising — Qingdao University
    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.

  • Organising Committee Member
    @ Interactive Film & Media Conference
    2024–

    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
    @ Interactive Film & Media Conference

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

  • Interactive Film and Media Journal, 2025.
    @ Interactive Film and Media Journal

    Interactive Film and Media Journal, 2025.

  • Organiser
    @ Atmosphere and Sensation Screening, London

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

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024Diaristic Atmosphere, The Penny Gallery, London
  • 2023Dailiness and Atmosphere, Stanley Picker Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

  • 2026Reimagining Post-Cinematic Environments: Embodied Media, Feminist Materialism, and Posthuman Futures, BLOC, Queen Mary University of London, London
  • 2022Where is My Journey (2021), Visibility of the Invisible, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, UK
  • 2022Possible Probable Preferable, Filet Gallery, London
  • 2020se(e)a in Touching, On The White Wall, London, UK
  • 2017Noise in Color, Make/Shift Visual Artist, Barbican Centre, London, UK

Screenings

  • 2024Atmosphere and Sensation Screening, Kingston University London, London
  • 2022Millennium Film Workshop, Millennium Film Workshop Online, Online

Selected Works

  • A Diary · 202440 min, digital film
  • The Mould 103 · 202440 min, Single-channel generated Image (colour, sound), loop
  • Where is My Journey · 2021digital video
  • Se(e)a in Touching · 2020digital film, generated sound, 5 min
  • Study for The Transformative Multi Gesture · 2020Single Channel Video
  • Noise in Colour · 2017video and performance

Publications

  • 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.
  • Moon, I. S. (2026) ‘A Diary and The Mould Series’. Interactive Film and Media Journal. link
  • Moon, I. S. (2026) ‘Breathing the Aura: Toward an Atmospheric Practice of the Experimental Moving Image’.
  • Moon, I. S. (2025) ‘Atmospheric Dailiness: Diaristic Practice and Performative Camera in the Experimental Moving Image’. Film-Philosophy conference.
  • Moon, I. S. (2025) ‘At Five, the Skies Erupt in Contrapuntal Breaths: Atmospheric Subjectivity in Diaristic Moving Image’. JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing.
  • Moon, I. S. (2024) ‘Atmospheric Spaces: Spatial Engagement in Echoes of the Earth and Synchronicity’. NECSUS Journal. link
  • Moon, I. S. (2024) ‘Atmospheric Dailiness: The Diagrammatic Relationship between Contingency and Chaos in the Experimental Film’. KRUK Seminar.
  • Moon, I. S. (2023) ‘Atmospheric Diary: Exploration of Diaristic Practice in Experimental Moving Image’. Body, Space & Technology.
  • Moon, I. S. (2023) ‘Fragments of Diary’. Interactive Film & Media Journal.
  • Moon, I. S. (2023) ‘Atmospheric Diagram: Exploration of Diaristic Moving Image in Experimental Artistic Practice’. DRHA Conference 2023.
  • Moon, I. S. (2022) ‘A Map of Montage Frame’. Place & Placelessness in a Planetary Age Conference.