Country: South Korea
Year: 2005
Duration: 42\'+40\'+
Wordly Desires This film within a film is about a movie set in the jungle and the filmed shots of two lovers forced to flee in order to live their love story. "The screenplay was written by my assistant to reprise a forbidden love story in a more romantic past time. I picked a pop song, Will I Be Lucky, to convey a sense of guiltless freedoom one feels when being hit by love." (Apichatpong W.) Magician(s) The musical group Magicians broke up when its guitarist Ja-eun committed suicide. Her companion, the band's drummer, buys a bar in a forest, a place the girl liked. Three years after the girl's suicide, the surviving members of the band get back together... "Members of an underground band are like magicians themselves. Through music, they spent [...] the world of magic. But now, they are just ordinary and lonely people who've lost their magical power, just as we don't believe in a magical world." (Song Il-gon) Haze A man tries to escape through a tunnel. He doesn't know why he's there; he doesn't remember anything of his past as he wanders in search of an escape route. Every so often, he has a confused vision of what might have happened... "As time goes on, the technology of the tool has advanced into a territory where digital video can provide the possibility of replacing film. I believe this short film is the simplest and strongest in expressing the condition of the people and their struggle in the age of this modern era." (Tsukamoto S.)
Biography
film director
Il-gon Song
FILMOGRAFIA
The
Dream of the Clowns (1997),
Liver and Potato (1998), The Picnic (1999),
Flower Island (2001),
Spider Forest (2004), Feathers in the
Wind (2004).
Shinya Tsukamoto@
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Bangkok, Thailand) debuted in 1994, became involved in video art in 1998 and in 2000 directed his first feature film, Mysterious Object at Noon, which was recently restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation. Considered one of the most interesting and innovative voices of contemporary cinema, in 2010 his film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Previous Lives received the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, where he had already won the Grand Jury Prize in 2004 with Tropical Malady and, in 2002, the section Un certain regard with Blissfully Yours. His installations have been displayed in museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dokfa hai meuman (Mysterious Object at Noon, 2000), Sud sanacha (Blissfully Yours, 2002), Hua jai tor ra nong (The Adventures of Iron Pussy, 2003), Sud Pralad (Tropical Malady, 2004), Sang sattawat (Syndromes and a Century, 2006), Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (Lo zio Boonmee che si ricorda le vite precedenti, 2010), Rak ti Khon Kaen (Cemetery of Splendour, 2015).