Fix You

Bio
DaSol Park is a filmmaker born and raised in South Korea. Growing up in Geochang, famous for the Geochang International Festival of Theatre, Park started her career as an actor. She began her filmmaking career in Seoul, and currently lives in the US. Her short film "The Play" won the Best Micro Short Award at the Nitiin Film Festival in Malaysia in 2024, and its lead actress received the Best Actress Award at the Couch Film Festival in Canada. She recently presented her documentary "Nothing but Relationships" as part of the "Spaghetti Junction" exhibition at The Nancy Cantor Warehouse in Syracuse, New York.
Pune Short Film Festival (India, 2024) – Official Selection
4theatre Selection (2024) – Finalist
First-Time Filmmaker Session, Lift-Off Global Network (UK, 2024) – Official Selection
New York Nil Gallery (USA, 2025) – Official Selection

Artist Statement:
Fiction and documentary filmmaker DaSol Park draws on her experiences of moving between contrasting worlds—rural and urban, South Korea and the U.S. —to portray women’s simultaneous disconnection and solidarity in her films. Park’s work explores Korean women's dilemmas and struggles taking place in the 30 years after South Korea's rapid economic development, a period often referred to as "Miracle on the Han River".

Depicting the close connections people form and experience with family, romantic partners and friends, Park highlights the unspoken hierarchies and oppression that often exist in these relationships. Inspired by sociologist Erving Goffman’s idea that everyday life is a stage where people wear different masks, Park shaped her first film, "The Play" (2023), around this premise. In this five-minute, one-character film, the facade of a happy family is depicted through the character's mask-like makeup and the layered sound design, where family members only appear through their voices offscreen. Through these stylistic choices, Park points out deeply rooted disconnections and generational conflict present in many South Korean families.

Her interest in complicated interpersonal relationships continues in her slice-of-life short film "Fix You" (2025). Portraying a friendship between two teenage girls, Park asks a painful question, "Can you accept yourself as who you are?" Park portrays characters who embody the suffocating reality faced by Korean teenagers suffering under unrealistic beauty standards and intense academic pressure.

In her most recent film, "Nothing but Relationships", Park deepens her exploration of disconnection. This documentary, centered on the stories of two women in their mid-twenties, translates a decade of Korean feminist discourse into an intimate, personal narrative. Against the backdrop of an intense anti-feminist backlash, Park frames the struggles of Korean society through the lens of two women’s love stories. The tight focus ultimately reveals a new perspective on the country’s intense and constant social tensions around sex and sexual politics.