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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Shinya Tsukamoto, Il-gon Song - Jeonju Digital Project 2005 (2005)

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Worldly Desires (43min)
A couple escapes their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. When the night falls, a song comes from somewhere. It speaks about an innocent idea of love and happiness and conveys a sense of guiltless freedom when being hot by love. The film is a little simulation of manners and dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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Haze (25min)
A man wakes up in a snall room. He doesn't know where he is and has no memory what happened to him. What terrifies him more is that he is bleeding, accompanied by acute pain. The clearer his consciousness becomes, the tighter the room seems to get.
Tsukamoto Shinya

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Magician(s) (41min)
Magician is a name of a band. The band broke up because the guitarist, Ja-Eun, killed herself 3 years ago. Her boyfriend and the band's drummer, Jae-Sung reminisces about her in every 31st of December. Jae-Sung and their bassist Myung-Soo wait for Ha-Young, the vocalist in a desert forest in Kangwondo. It is snowing, the last night of December, and the time is quarter to midnight.
Song Il-Gon

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Every year since the first Jeonju International Film Festival back in 2000, JIFF selects three filmmakers who are given 50 million KRW to create a thirty-minute digital movie. No restrictions are given to the topic or type of film to be made and many of the results have been outstanding. Now, gathered together for the first time, these 27 films from 2000-2008 have been made available in a 915 minutes, 9-disk set.

http://www.filesonic.com/file/61123649/Worldly Desires.avi
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http://www.filesonic.com/file/61126351/Worldly Desires.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61126307/Worldly Desires.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61126301/Worldly Desires.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61126297/Worldly Desires.part4.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61126313/Worldly Desires.part5.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61125803/Worldly Desires.part6.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/61123221/Magicians.avi
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http://www.filesonic.com/file/61122785/Magicians.part1.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61122675/Magicians.part2.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61122659/Magicians.part3.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61122653/Magicians.part4.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61122709/Magicians.part5.rar
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61122623/Magicians.part6.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/61108859/bmt-haze.srt
http://www.filesonic.com/file/61108441/Haze.avi

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Il-gon Song - Git aka Feathers in the Wind (2004)

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The film opens with a monologue from a young film maker looking back on his first, lost love. Hey! Stop groaning! This is NOT one of those self indulgent “look at me I’m a tortured artist” films. Having just completed his first film, one he freely describes as mediocre, he is supposed to be preparing a draft of his next script. But, feeling restless and perhaps a little lost, he is instead on a boat, heading for a motel on a remote island where, ten years earlier, he once vacationed with his first girlfriend, now married and living in Germany. Why? At the time they swore to meet there again in ten years time and he is keeping that date knowing full well that she is not likely to turn up. The motel has only two other residents: an aspiring dancer fully ten years our director’s junior who does virtually all of the day to day work and her uncle, the motel’s owner who has been completely non-verbal since his wife left him without warning or explanation some years earlier. And that is basically the film: a man waiting for a past he knows will never return to him while building new relationships with the motel’s staff and generally not getting any work done.

What makes Git work so well is precisely the same thing that makes 3 Iron – a film very similar in tone – work. Song Il Gon understands that there is power in simplicity. His two primary leads turn in simply fantastic performances with looks and gestures loaded with just as much meaning as any of the dialogue. Song’s script is masterfully constructed with no waste whatsoever: every word, every image contributes to the overall effect. His remote island location is starkly beautiful and shot to great effect – there are more startlingly beautiful images than you can count – with occasional forays into the characters’ memories and dreams woven seamlessly in until the ‘real’ world is thoroughly infused with the possibility of the fantastic.