DMZ국제다큐멘터리영화제

Face of Nature 

Returning for its third year, the Non-Theatrical Program presents Face of Nature, a timely and urgent meditation on our relationship with the natural world. As the Anthropocene reminds us, the accelerated evolution of industrial and technological society has led us to forget a simple truth: humans are not separate from nature, but one of its many components—alongside animals, plants, minerals, and all that the earth sustains. This exhibition invites us to pause, reflect, and reconsider our place within this organic circuit of life.

Featuring nine installation works, the program offers space to question dominant narratives of progress and growth, and to contemplate both the potential and peril of innovation. At its heart lies a yearning to overcome the long-standing separation between humans and nature, and to restore meaningful interactions between human and nonhuman life. These works respond to today’s ecological crises with quiet urgency, revealing nature’s resilience while offering poetic visions of coexistence—glimpses of life that shimmer beneath the surface of the visible.

The 2025 edition takes place across two distinct sites: Goyang Artist Residency Saedeul in Goyang and the Aegibong Peace Ecopark Exhibition Hall in Gimpo. Both were chosen for their ability to reflect the vanishing faces of nature—its fragile phenomena, its materials, its memories. These sites are not just venues, but integral parts of the experience, embodying the very landscapes under threat. In a world fractured by violence and anxiety, this program extends an invitation to see anew—to rediscover, through the act of looking, our deep entanglement with the natural world.