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Joshua Minsoo Kim

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@misterminsoo
Music critic, film programmer, science teacher. I run @toneglow. Bylines at The Wire, Pitchfork, Chicago Reader, BOMB Mag, Cinema Scope, MUBI Notebook
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  • Engagement 4.93%
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About Joshua Minsoo Kim

Joshua Minsoo Kim (@misterminsoo) is a Technology creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists and Music & Audio. The account has 5,135 followers and 113 published posts. Recent posts average 261 likes and 3 comments, an engagement rate of 4.93%.

Joshua Minsoo Kim belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Joshua Minsoo Kim follows 2,872 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.8 times the size of the list followed. Flinque files Joshua Minsoo Kim under 3 categories, led by Technology and followed by Music & Artists and Music & Audio.

The Instagram bio for Joshua Minsoo Kim runs to 22 words. The bio mentions @toneglow. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Joshua Minsoo Kim dates from December 2025.

113 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Joshua Minsoo Kim, 6 are carousels, 3 are single images and 1 is a video. That mix leans toward carousels. 113 published posts give Joshua Minsoo Kim a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 45 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 179 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include films, film, tone, glow and program.

I programmed 152 films this year—not too shabby for my second year doing this. I flew to Portugal and China and Korea, did a touring program of Korean films, brought in guests, set up concerts at screenings, got a clown/puppeteer for one show, did one at a farm. It was all a dream…

Thanks to everyone who came out, thanks to all the venues (especially,,,,,,,,,,, and ), thanks to the festivals who let me join in (,, ), thanks to all the filmmakers and musicians, thanks to all the distributors (especially,, and ), thanks to my mighty projectionist, and thanks to all my collaborators and programmer friends who helped me along the way, especially,,,, and. Love you all.

1. Stills from films I showed
2. My program at for in Braga, Portugal
3. Amy Halpern film stack (📸 )
4. at (📸 )
5. Me & Sandra Davis at
6. Justin D’Acci at for our clown show (📸 )
7. Another clown (📸 )
8. Greta Snider in 3D (📸 )
9. José Rodriguez-Soltero’s JEROVI with a cute emulsion scratch at Elastic Arts
10. Rotating Signals program at in LA
11. The Invisible Spectrum / crew in beijing, with Takashi Ito in the back
12. Dominique Willoughby’s D’ART MODERNE at HeyTown Art Center in Beijing
13. Paul Sharits’ EPILEPTIC SEIZURE COMPARISON at
14. With &
15. With introducing Brakhage films at in Seoul
16. & at Anthology
17. Everyone at for me & ’s screening
18. & at
19. Cheesin’
Tone Glow presents Ava Gardner in PANDORA IN THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, a Atlantian fever dream of a melodrama that starts at eleven hundred and barely dips in momentum after, a Jamesian death-knoll in which several men burn their souls for the attention of a transcendent ideal of a woman, who in turn suspects a stranger (James Mason) of being the fabled “Flying Dutchman,” a 16th-century captain condemned to sailing the seas until such time as he finds a woman willing to die for love. ⁠

Pre-screening musical performance by jazz vocalist Eliana Glass accompanied by Luke Bergman on pedal steel on Saturday, December 13th⁠
Had to make a grid post for my first time writing professionally about visual art, and I’m deeply happy that I was able to do so on the career-spanning Kim Tschang-yeul exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. Big thanks to the folks at for letting me write this. I had a huge blast viewing all these pieces, first by myself and then with, whose conversations helped clarify ideas that I had. The cumulative effect of seeing all these works was really powerful. You can read my write-up in the latest issue of ArtReview Asia. Enjoy some of my shoddy phone photos of Kim’s pieces.
Saturday November 15 - the first of our series of live screenings in Philadelphia this November!

We are excited to partner with and to present the first North American run of DISTANT VOICES (2024), the brand new feature film from Takashi Ito (b. 1956). Ito has been a crucial figure in the history of avant-garde film for many decades, constructing evocative and haunted short films that bridge the everyday with the otherworldly.

Painstakingly edited, his works were initially influenced by his mentor, Toshio Matsumoto, while he was a student at the Kyūshū Institute of Design. In 1984, he explained that film is able to construct a “vivid reality” that is specific to the medium itself, and that his primary goal is “draw the audience into a vortex of supernatural illusion.” His newest film DISTANT VOICES follows suit, and is in line with his recent trajectory of experimenting with creating longform digital works. The film follows two girls engaging in some magical form of communication—both with and through each other—across various liminal spaces. “A field of wilted sunflowers, a group of public housing units turned into ruins. Two girls who are like alter egos of each other. They wander around with a camera, one pointing it at mysterious things and at herself, the other hanging a black dress in various places and taking pictures of it.

Critic and curator Joshua Minsoo Kim of Tone Glow will be present to introduce the film.
handicap accessible men’s restroom sign // be my chili dog?
I wrote the cover story for the new issue of the. I talked with Chae Yu, Jangwook Lee, and Cameron Worden about Celluloid City Seoul, a program of rare 16mm avant-garde films playing as part of ’s Celluloid Now festival. We also talked about, an artist-run film lab that has been crucial to Korea’s experimental film scene since its founding in 2004.

Celluloid Now is one of the great showcases of experimental films in Chicago, and I wrote about it during its inaugural year in 2022, also for the Reader. I’m thrilled to be writing about it again for their third edition, as it lines up nicely with the Korean experimental works I’ve been championing in my own programming recently—a selection of Seoungho Cho’s video art for Prismatic Ground in New York, a touring program of contemporary Korean films around the US called Rotating Signals. And it’s especially exciting to highlight a program that’ll feature actual film prints; it’s an understatement to say this screening is one of the most essential of the year. It takes place at the on Sunday, October 12th.

As an addendum to the piece, I created a list of 25 Korean experimental films that can shed some light on its specific history. There’s not really much in the way of a canon for this sort of stuff, so I wanted to make something like that for others to see, though I’ve not included anything already showing in the Celluloid City Seoul program. I also kept it to one per director. What can I say, I love making lists.

Film Stills:
• The Dark Room (Minyong Jang, 2001)
• Study for Three Streams (Park Kyujae, 2024)
• Chang Gyeong (Jangwook Lee, 2024)
• (100ft) (Minjung Kim, 2016)
• Tide (Jang Eunju, 2007)
Honored to have contributed to Pitchfork’s “The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time” list. Rap is the best thing about the past half-century of human existence and while I do listen to a lot of it, I pretty much never write about it. Was pleased to write about four albums I love: Waka Flocka Flame’s ‘Flockaveli’ and its concentrated crunk; Mac Mall’s ‘Illegal Business?’, an all-timer debut and Bay Area classic; Whodini’s ‘Escape’, my favorite rap album pre-1987; and DJ Quik’s ‘Rhythm-al-ism’, the best album from one of the greatest rappers/producers to ever do it.

Also, this is very obviously the best “Best Rap Albums” list from a major publication in the last decade. Nothing else comes close, so it feels real nice to be a part of it.
Tone Glow and Cinema-Luz are excited to present “Treasured Living,” an event highlighting films from Les Blank and Lua Borges. The screening will take place on Saturday October 4th, 2025 at Patchwork Farms, a BIPOC-led urban farm and farmer’s market located in Humboldt Park. The films will be shown outdoors at 7:30pm, all on 16mm.

Les Blank (1935-2013) was an American documentary filmmaker whose works took a congenial and crucial look into various American musicians, cultures, and scenes. Naturally, food is a focus of some of his films, and we will be showing 1980’s ‘Garlic is As Good as Ten Mothers’ (Short Version) and 1990’s ‘Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana’, which was made with Maureen Gosling. Blank once said, “Food is sensual. It keeps bodies alive and people together.”

Lua Borges is a Chicago-based filmmaker originally from Brazil who works with the analog medium to capture the ephemera and interiority of everyday life. Three of her films will be shown, all of which will be premieres on new prints. This includes 2020’s ‘Dois Estágios’, a documentary that explores the beginning and end of a bloodline, starting in the urban of São Paulo where she was raised, and then ending on the country farm where her grandparents spend their golden years. The film delves into the personal and shared history of her Brazilian family. ‘Guarita’ & ‘Desire Path’, both from 2025, will also be shown. These are one-roll collage films of guard houses in São Paulo and desire paths along Chicago, respectively. Tone Glow commissioned Borges to make a film for this screening and the result was ‘Desire Path’.

🎟️ in bio. is a publication founded by. is a film collective founded by. Special thanks to,,.

1. Lua Borges, Guarita (2025, 3 mins)
2. Lua Borges, Desire Path (2025, 3 mins)
3. Les Blank, Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (Short Version) (1980, 30 mins)
~Intermission~
4. Lua Borges, Dois Estágios (2020, 18 mins)
5. Les Blank & Maureen Gosling, Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana (1990, 31 mins)
TRT = 85 mins
Tone Glow x Lothringen x KU Cinematheque present “Unburdened Landscape: Six By Stan Brakhage”

This Friday, September 12th at 7:20PM. All films on 16mm. Tickets at -> ku시네마테크 예매하기

Program:
1. Made Manifest (1980, 10‘)
2. Marilyn’s Window (1988, 8’)
3. Vision of the Fire Tree (1990, 3‘)
4. The Thatch of Night (1990, 6’)
5. City Streaming (1990, 19‘)
6. Passage Through: A Ritual (1990, 49’)
Tone Glow is excited to present “Don’t Hang Up,” a free screening at Comfort Station on September 17th at 7PM. The event will feature four films centered around phone calls and answering machines. Bill Brand’s TOUCH TONE PHONE FILM is a mischievous audio-video experiment that juxtaposes a sliding film strip with the sound of someone repeatedly dialing a phone number. Dominic Angerame’s PHONE/FILM PORTRAITS features short portraits of the director’s friends as answering machine messages play over them. Phil Weisman’s ETHNA’S SUITE, SO LONG is a diaristic survey of the director’s relationship with the titular woman, as told through voice messages. Lawrence Brose’s AN INDIVIDUAL DESIRES SOLUTION features transcribed and recorded phone calls of the director’s boyfriend Kevin during the final months of his life. It was considered by Chicago filmmaker Zach Stiglicz to be “one of the most important documents from the early years of the [AIDS] epidemic.”

All films will be shown on 16mm. Thank you to,, and.

RSVP link in bio.

Program:
1. Bill Brand, Touch Tone Phone Film (1973, b/w, sound, 8 mins)
2. Dominic Angerame, Phone/Film Portraits (1985, b/w, sound, 6 mins)
3. Phil Weisman, Ethna’s Suite, So Long (1986, color & b/w, sound, 15 mins)
4. Lawrence Brose, An Individual Desires Solution (1991, color & b/w, sound, 16 mins)
TRT = 45 mins

Joshua Minsoo Kim's engagement

Joshua Minsoo Kim's engagement rate on Instagram is 4.93%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 20 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 87 to 1, with 261 likes and 3 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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Joshua Minsoo Kim (@misterminsoo) is a Technology creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists and Music & Audio. Joshua Minsoo Kim belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. The Instagram bio for Joshua Minsoo Kim runs to 22 words.

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Joshua Minsoo Kim has 5,135 followers on Instagram (5.1K). Joshua Minsoo Kim follows 2,872 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.8 times the size of the list followed. 113 published posts give Joshua Minsoo Kim a moderate archive on Instagram.

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Joshua Minsoo Kim's engagement rate on Instagram is 4.93%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 20 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 87 to 1, with 261 likes and 3 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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