3 Asian Directors Coming For Digital Films
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By Kate Woo
Staff Reporter
Producers and directors of the Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers are seated right before press conference begins at Sejong Hotel.
The 2005 JIFF Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers is to be on the road.
The 6th aesthetic adventure has just begun. The Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers of the 6th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) was officially got on the road on Jan 10. It is to be presented at the 6th JIFF, Apr 28 to May 6 2005. At the Sejong Hall of Sejong Hotel, Jan 10, more stories on the films were revealed.
The Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers is a trial to discover aesthetic and political potentials of digital media to the utmost in order to make film free from the pressure from market. JIFF invites three Asian auteurs to realize a short film each (of about 30 minutes) being made out of digital devices. This time, the honorable are Song Il-gon from Korea, Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand, and Tsukamoto Shinya from Japan.
Il-gon Song won the Jury Prize of Canne 1999 for his short film "A Picnic", and directed Flower Island (Kot-sum) and Spider Forest (Gumisoop). The title Il-gon Song chose for this year's Digital Short Film is Magician(s). The synopsis is about a guy proposing to a girl on a day his former member of a band Magician(s) ("Magician(s).php">The Magician(s)") killed herself. "If compared to color", said Song Il-gon, "my film would be orange".
He said, "Playing guitar in a band is like a magic that happens only in your youth. But the magic disappears quickly, and you hope to possess the power of magic again. I want for audience my film to be a moment to experience such a magic again".Song Il-gon will start producing it Feb. 17 to 18, 2005: post-production will be followed from Feb. 19, 2005 to Mar 18, 2005.
Apichatpong Weerasethaku ( http://www.kickthemachine.com ), an experimental filmmaker well regarded for challenging ideas, integrity, and skills dedicating to building a new chapter in Thai modern cinema, gained worldwide popularity winning the Jury Prize of Canne 2004 for his film Tropical Malady. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film title is called Worldly Desires.
It is about a group of people who went to jungle. There they conquered and ruled unidentified lives in jungle. Since then, the unidentified objects of jungle has gained strong desire to be human beings, even after there leaves no humans alive.
As a result of their desire, animals, trees and the earth change into another world that represents the world they could not have. Apichatpong said, "My idea of this film came from the imagination that jungle might be a thing full of desires. I felt monkeys watching me.
It may be possible the monkeys follow my behavior in somewhere we don't know". He also said that his film would contain the feeling of a color, orange. Apichatpong's new film will be getting started Jan 23 to 31. His post-production is scheduled to be Feb 1 to Mar 15.
Tsukamoto Shinya, a Japanese film director.
Last but not least, Tsukamoto Shinya is the director of Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: The Bodyhammer, which was screened at over 30 film festivals and won 7 awards, earning him a cult following around the world. Tsukamoto Shinya has attracted the eyes of worldwide film lovers for his original style of storytelling. He is well known as the young big shot of thriller movie in Japan. In Jeonju, Tsukamoto Shinya will tell a story of a man waking up in a room without any idea of who he is.
As time goes by, he feels huge pain and sees bodies of a man and a woman are torn into pieces. The woman is still alive; she tells him to get out of here. But to get out of the place, they should go into a pond where dead bodies are on.
The message Tsukamoto tries to deliver is the uncertainty of human recognition and the continuous attempts to find out certain things. He described his film to be gray, if compared to color. He will start making film on Jan. 12, 2005. Post-production will follow up from Feb. 1 to Mar 13, 2005.
Since 2000, The Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers of JIFF has invited experimental directors devoted to discovering possibilities of digital filmmaking. The films produced here were distributed to well-known independent film festivals such as Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada and Locarno International Film Festival, Swiss. Based on the success of its former films, this time the JIFF organizing committee is promoting ambitiously to distribute short films for commercial purposes as well.
The three directors nominated are on stage: from left to right, Song Il-gon, Tsukamoto Shinya, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The Jeonju International Film Festival promotes the spirit of independence and experimentalism. It also enthusiastically seeks new aesthetic and technological possibilities for contemporary cinema. Whereas Pusan International Film Festival is concentrated on commercial films and Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival is on science fiction, fantasy, and horror, the JIFF consolidates itself as an alternative filmmaking frontier against market mechanism. Audience who wants to find out both the cutting-edge and the state of art films of the 21st Century should not miss the JIFF, particularly The Digital Short Films.
Kate (Miae) Woo serves as a staff reporter for The Seoul Times. She studies international relations at the National University of Seoul. She also studied at the University of Washington at Seattle. She covers business and foreign communities.
Staff Reporter
Producers and directors of the Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers are seated right before press conference begins at Sejong Hotel.
The 2005 JIFF Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers is to be on the road.
The 6th aesthetic adventure has just begun. The Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers of the 6th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) was officially got on the road on Jan 10. It is to be presented at the 6th JIFF, Apr 28 to May 6 2005. At the Sejong Hall of Sejong Hotel, Jan 10, more stories on the films were revealed.
The Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers is a trial to discover aesthetic and political potentials of digital media to the utmost in order to make film free from the pressure from market. JIFF invites three Asian auteurs to realize a short film each (of about 30 minutes) being made out of digital devices. This time, the honorable are Song Il-gon from Korea, Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand, and Tsukamoto Shinya from Japan.
Il-gon Song won the Jury Prize of Canne 1999 for his short film "A Picnic", and directed Flower Island (Kot-sum) and Spider Forest (Gumisoop). The title Il-gon Song chose for this year's Digital Short Film is Magician(s). The synopsis is about a guy proposing to a girl on a day his former member of a band Magician(s) ("Magician(s).php">The Magician(s)") killed herself. "If compared to color", said Song Il-gon, "my film would be orange".
He said, "Playing guitar in a band is like a magic that happens only in your youth. But the magic disappears quickly, and you hope to possess the power of magic again. I want for audience my film to be a moment to experience such a magic again".Song Il-gon will start producing it Feb. 17 to 18, 2005: post-production will be followed from Feb. 19, 2005 to Mar 18, 2005.
Apichatpong Weerasethaku ( http://www.kickthemachine.com ), an experimental filmmaker well regarded for challenging ideas, integrity, and skills dedicating to building a new chapter in Thai modern cinema, gained worldwide popularity winning the Jury Prize of Canne 2004 for his film Tropical Malady. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film title is called Worldly Desires.
It is about a group of people who went to jungle. There they conquered and ruled unidentified lives in jungle. Since then, the unidentified objects of jungle has gained strong desire to be human beings, even after there leaves no humans alive.
As a result of their desire, animals, trees and the earth change into another world that represents the world they could not have. Apichatpong said, "My idea of this film came from the imagination that jungle might be a thing full of desires. I felt monkeys watching me.
It may be possible the monkeys follow my behavior in somewhere we don't know". He also said that his film would contain the feeling of a color, orange. Apichatpong's new film will be getting started Jan 23 to 31. His post-production is scheduled to be Feb 1 to Mar 15.
Tsukamoto Shinya, a Japanese film director.
Last but not least, Tsukamoto Shinya is the director of Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: The Bodyhammer, which was screened at over 30 film festivals and won 7 awards, earning him a cult following around the world. Tsukamoto Shinya has attracted the eyes of worldwide film lovers for his original style of storytelling. He is well known as the young big shot of thriller movie in Japan. In Jeonju, Tsukamoto Shinya will tell a story of a man waking up in a room without any idea of who he is.
As time goes by, he feels huge pain and sees bodies of a man and a woman are torn into pieces. The woman is still alive; she tells him to get out of here. But to get out of the place, they should go into a pond where dead bodies are on.
The message Tsukamoto tries to deliver is the uncertainty of human recognition and the continuous attempts to find out certain things. He described his film to be gray, if compared to color. He will start making film on Jan. 12, 2005. Post-production will follow up from Feb. 1 to Mar 13, 2005.
Since 2000, The Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers of JIFF has invited experimental directors devoted to discovering possibilities of digital filmmaking. The films produced here were distributed to well-known independent film festivals such as Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada and Locarno International Film Festival, Swiss. Based on the success of its former films, this time the JIFF organizing committee is promoting ambitiously to distribute short films for commercial purposes as well.
The three directors nominated are on stage: from left to right, Song Il-gon, Tsukamoto Shinya, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The Jeonju International Film Festival promotes the spirit of independence and experimentalism. It also enthusiastically seeks new aesthetic and technological possibilities for contemporary cinema. Whereas Pusan International Film Festival is concentrated on commercial films and Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival is on science fiction, fantasy, and horror, the JIFF consolidates itself as an alternative filmmaking frontier against market mechanism. Audience who wants to find out both the cutting-edge and the state of art films of the 21st Century should not miss the JIFF, particularly The Digital Short Films.
Kate (Miae) Woo serves as a staff reporter for The Seoul Times. She studies international relations at the National University of Seoul. She also studied at the University of Washington at Seattle. She covers business and foreign communities.
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