Yuri Kim

Jan 22, 2025 | newjerseystage.com | Yuri Kim

By Yuri Kim  originally published: 01/22/2025“Is now a good time?” The question is usually asked when it never is. Disoriented is a short film that follows the stories of 3 different individuals, all of whom receive a phone call while in the middle of their day-to-day lives. The news they receive takes them out of their surroundings, wrapped up in the voice that is on the other line. What should they do? How should they act?

Jan 21, 2025 | newjerseystage.com | Yuri Kim

By Yuri Kim  originally published: 01/21/2025Giant’s Kettle begins with a black screen, as howling winds are heard in the background. We rest with this image - we stay with this image. Slowly, a hand and a face eerily come out of the darkness, looking straight at us, the viewer. It’s a man. His forehead is bandaged. His expression is blank. He stares at us for an uncomfortably long period of time. We feel that he is trapped. We feel that he holds resentment, but also tiredness.

Jan 14, 2025 | newjerseystage.com | Yuri Kim

By Yuri Kim  originally published: 01/14/2025“We have just learned of a massive release of nuclear warheads, authorized by the United States.”Those are the grim words uttered at the beginning of the short Supercritical. Heightening our anxiety (and our blood pressure), the stakes continue to stack, as we see names and faces being crossed out in red, and radio static cutting into the broadcast as the sound of sirens close in on us.

Jan 12, 2025 | newjerseystage.com | Yuri Kim

By Yuri Kim  originally published: 01/12/2025It all starts with the buzzing of a fly. A woman with a cut on her lip stands crying while waiting in a hallway to see the body of her dead husband. The architecture surrounding her is uninviting. The coloring of the world is bleak, cold. The characters around her are careless and dismissive - a disinterested prosecutor who’s too preoccupied with his own phone calls, and a straight-faced doctor who clinically goes through the motions, step by step.

Jan 2, 2025 | jci.org | Bryan Wang |Seong Won Kim |Lori Luo |Xiaokan Zhang |Rajesh Kumar Soni |Roberta Lock | +11 more

AbstractLoss of Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) is associated with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). BAG3 regulates sarcomere protein turnover in cardiomyocytes; however, the function of BAG3 in other cardiac cell types is understudied. In this study, we used an isogenic pair of BAG3-knockout and wild-type human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to interrogate the role of BAG3 in hiPSC-derived cardiac fibroblasts (CFs).