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The 12th Jeonju International Film Festival
Jeonju Digital Project 2011
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Outline
Jeonju Digital Project 2011
Introduction.............................................................................................03
Jeonju Digital Project 2011
The Choice of 2011..................................................................................05
· Choice 1. Jean-Marie Straub
· Choice 2. Claire Denis
· Choice 3. José Luis Guerin
Jeonju Digital Project 2000 ~2010
The History of a Decade........................................................................15
Jeonju Digital Project 2000 ~2010
Festivals & Achievement........................................................................30
Jeonju Digital Project 2011 Introduction
Jeonju Digital Project 2011
About Jeonju Digital Project
Jeonju Digital Project, specially planned and released annually by Jeonju International Film Festival, is to produce, support and contribute digital films for international screenings. Jeonju Digital Project offers 50 million (won) to three filmmakers from all over the world, selected carefully by JIFF (Jeonju International Film Festival) for their production of 30 min-length digital films employing digital camera and digital equipments. The selected filmmakers obtain an opportunity to screen their films as world premiere at JIFF.
Introduction
In 2000, Jeonju International Film Festival launched the first Jeonju Digital Project, focusing on the future of film industry which digital films will be largely taking parts of, having to believe firmly that producing digital films will be the preview to our films in the future that give us new vision. During last 11 years, we carried the scene of filmmakers blessed by digital media, having to construct their own style cohesively by doubling their creativity and improving weaknesses. However, we did not hold onto the idea of technological determinism that digital technology is the only way for the change of films in the future. Jeonju International Film Festival has always had a belief that the future of films is less about the speculation of theories or the development of technology; it depends more likely on passionate filmmakers themselves who are competitively searching for the cinematic language at the very edge of film production. That belief led us to make many efforts to communicate with filmmakers from all over the world trying to widen the horizon of their aesthetics.
Jeonju Digital Project, the core project that Jeonju International Film Festival releases every year, is to support passionate filmmakers who have been pursuing cinematic aesthetics to search for the future of films. From the beginning, JIFF has been showing 33 digital short films directed by renowned filmmakers at various film festivals and well received by audiences from all over the world. As a consequence of our constant efforts, Jeouju Digital Project has been invited to a number of major international film festivals such as Venice, Toronto, Locarno, Torino, Vancouver, Vienna, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals and more. At Locarno International Film Festival, there has been the special screening, a retrospective of all of the Jeonju Digital Projects, and Jeonju Digital Project 2007: Memories won Special Jury Prize.
In 2007, Jeonju International Film Festival commercially released Jeonju Digital Project 2006: Talk to Her in South Korea for the first time and it successfully fetched South Korean audiences as well. And Expectations directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun in Jeonju Digital Project 2008 proved the potential and possibility of this project by receiving Special Jury Award in Muhr Africa Asia Short Film Competition at Dubai International Film Festival. In addition, Buenos Aires Cinematheque will be holding a special retrospective for Jeonju Digital Project in June, 2011. Especially, Jeonju Digital Project 2009: Visitors was acclaimed by critics saying “a masterpiece of three talented filmmakers reflecting their unique cinematic world” and well received by audience as well. Upon the praises and facing the 10th anniversary of JIFF, JIFF put all the films of the Project into a DVD set and has distributed in the domestic and international market.
Since 2007, JIFF has extended the boundary of Jeonju Digital Project to Europe, Africa and America regions beyond the Asian region in order to make Jeonju Digital Project as the world’s leading digital filmmaking project. Having introduced at major international film festivals, Jeonju Digital Project has drawn a lot of attention of filmmakers from all over the world. Based on the achievements of the project, JIFF decided to take a further step to reach out a wider range of filmmakers in sharing the vision and the meaning of this project. As a result, Jeonju Digital Project 2008 was joined by directors from Africa, still an unknown cinematic continent to us. Facing the 10th anniversary of the project, Jeonju Digital Project 2009 returned to Asia once again to look back its origin and declare the new start of the project. In 2010, 3 directors from America regions came to participate in Jeonju Digital Project 2010 for the first time. As now facing the 12th edition of the festival, JIFF is still looking for unique and creative directors, who can share the vision and the meaning of this digital project, to promise another 10 years of the project.
JIFF proudly announces that 3 directors from Europe will be participating in Jeonju Digital Project 2011 and the participation of European directors is the second time in the history of the project. The directors are; Jean-Marie Straub, a militant of the modern cinema, who has examined the materialistic aspect of cinema, Claire Denis, an adventurer, who has attempted to encounter the other by crossing the boundary, and José Luis Guerin, a promenader, who has discovered the mystery of life with the attitude of an essayist. With the participation of 3 European masters, Jeonju Digital Project 2011 is expected to deepen the understanding of the digital film world and extend the boundary of the project. Thus, JIFF proudly invites you all to a uniquely new digital world created by 3 directors representing the European region with their own cinematic view in standing on the very frontline of the cinematic aesthetic.
Jeonju Digital Project 2011
The Choice of 2011
·. Jean-Marie Straub
· Claire Denis
· José Luis Guerin
The Choice of 2011
Choice 1. Jean-Marie Straub
A Heir (Un Héritier)
2011 / 22 min / Color / HD
◎ Synopsis
In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet made a film, Lothringen!, adapting from a novel Colette Bodauche of Maurice Barrès. In 2010, Straub goes to Alsace in France to complete the second film of the Barrès series. At this time, the film is based on the novel, Au service de l'Allemagne, about Mont Saint Odile written in 1903. Like Joseph, the protagonist, Jean-Marie Straub from the Colmar region will be wandering around Mont Saint Odile following the route of a young country doctor. And Straub will be visiting paths leading to the private house of foresters and near the famous wall of the heathen existing in the region, which were also familiar to Barrès.
◎ Director's Statement
1872 - 1918 !
These images of my childhood cause me pain. We others, young Alsatian bourgeois, we grew up in an atmosphere of conspiracy, fear and hatred.
◎ Production date
- Nov. 2010 : In production (shooting)
- Dec. 2010: Post-production
The Choice of 2011
Q&A
1. How do you feel about joining the project, Jeonju Digital Project 2010 and what kind of work you want to deliver through this project?
A narrative film
2. How do you want you as a director and your works to be introduced to Korean audience?
Shamelessly: both as "the survivor of Warsaw" - and as the last of the Mohicans.
4. How would you explain your own style and philosophy when making films?
Challenging the philosophy!
5. Please let us know if there is an on-going project you are currently working on, and your future plan.
Who knows, you never knows.
The Choice of 2011
Jean-Marie Straub
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1933, Metz, France. Jean-Marie Straub met his life time partner Danièle Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community of the time, and was a friend of François Truffaut. Between 1954 and 1958, Straub worked as an assistant to the film directors Robert Bresson, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, and Jacques Rivette. Straub and Huillet made their first film together, an 18-minute short called Machorka-Muff in 1963; it was based on a story by Heinrich Böll. Their next film, the 55-minute Not Reconciled, was also a Böll adaptation. They did not make a full-length feature until 1968's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, after which they made films at a fairly even rate, completing a feature every 2–3 years. In 1968, they also made a short film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his theatre troupe called The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp. During their career, they adapted two Arnold Schoenberg operas, as well as Franz Kafka's first novel, Amerika.
FILMOGRAPHY
2010 O somma luce (short)
2009 Corneille-Brecht (short)
2003 Il ritorno del figlio prodigo - Umiliati
1999 Sicily!
1997 Von heute auf morgen
1990 Cézanne (documentary)
1987 Der Tod des Empedokles
1982 Trop tôt, trop tard
1979 Dalla nube alla resistenza
1975 Moses and Aaron
1968 Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach
1965 Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht
1963 Machorka-Muff (short)
The Choice of 2011
Choice 2. Claire Denis
ⓒ Richard Dumas
Alibi for Aliba (working title)
2011 / 43 min / Color / HD
◎ Synopsis
He is an Aluku man, one of the five tribes of Maroons who survives in the forest during 400 years after escaping from the Dutch sugarcane plantations. All the Maroons are issued originally from the West coast of Africa. They were taken as slaves.
◎ Director's Statement
I was eager to participate and yet now I am worried to start late in the schedule and still I believe it is a great opportunity. The kind of film I am going to shoot next week is a challenge with our budget, we are going to French Guyana and Surinam to meet a famous goldigger with a bad reputation and a great heart, great skills, a lot of humour. Hopefully we will meet him, sometimes it is impossible.
My intention is not exactly a documentary. It is linked to a fiction character.
◎ Production Date
- Jan. 2011: In production (shooting)
- Feb. 2011: Post-production
The Choice of 2011
Q&A
1. How do you feel about joining the project, Jeonju Digital Project 2010 and what kind of work you want to deliver through this project?
I was eager to participate and yet now I am worried to start late in the schedule and still I believe it is a great opportunity. The kind of film I am going to shoot next week is a challenge with our budget, we are going to French Guyana and Surinam to meet a famous goldigger with a bad reputation and a great heart, great skills, a lot of humour. Hopefully we will meet him, sometimes it is impossible. He is an Aluku man, one of the five tribes of Maroons who survives in the forest during 400 years after escaping from the Dutch sugarcane plantations. All the Maroons are issued originally from the West coast of Africa. They were taken as slaves. My intention is not exactly a documentary. It is linked to a fiction character.
2. What was you motivation deciding to participate in this project? Do you have any special relationships with JIFF?
Of course the main reason is the long relation I have been able to establish with South Korea. I wanted to be part of the Jeonju Film Festival. Of course you understand now that I have no experience with Jeonju Film Festival.
3. How do you want you as a director and your works to be introduced to Korean audience?
I have no idea. I think this is your job.
4. How would you explain your own style and philosophy when making films?
This question is totally abstract, I cannot honestly give you that kind of answer. I never speak about style that is my philosophy.
5. Please let us know if there is an on-going project you are currently working on, and your future plan.
I have projects that are still in the twilight zone (always the same with me, I keep everything to myself as much as I can).
The Choice of 2011
Claire Denis
BIOGRAPHY
Denis was born in Paris, France, and raised in colonial Africa (Burkina Faso, Somalia, Senegal and Cameroon). She graduated from the IDHEC, and served as assistant to Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gavras, Jim Jarmusch, and Wim Wenders. Since 2002 Claire Denis is a Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Her debut feature film Chocolat (1988), a semi-autobiographical meditation on African colonialism, won her critical acclaim. With films such as US Go Home (1994), Nénette et Boni (1996), Beau travail (1999), Trouble Every Day (2001), and Vendredi soir (2002) she established a reputation as a filmmaker who "has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France."A large number of Denis' films concentrate on the everyday lives of immigrants and French people of African origin. Indeed, a lion's share of her films possess a central character that is a black male; this tendency remains unique to Denis in both France and abroad.
FILMOGRAPHY
2009 White Material
2008 35 Shots of Rum
2005 Vers Mathilde (documentary)
2004 The Intruder
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (segment "Vers Nancy")
2002 Friday Night
2001 Trouble Every Day
1999 Beau travail
1996 Nénette et Boni
1995 À propos de Nice, la suite (segment "Nice, Very Nice")
1994 J'ai pas sommeil
1994 Boom-Boom
1990 S'en fout la mort
1989 Man No Run (documentary)
1988 Chocolat
The Choice of 2011
Choice 3. José Luis Guerin
1900, A Neighborhood Story (working title) (1900, Historia de Vecinos)
2011 / 40 min / Color / HD
◎ Synopsis
The window of my house frames the façade of a nineteenth century building with a date in large numbers: “1900”. Since I moved to my place 10 years ago, I started to record images of the changing seasons over the tree that interferes between the two buildings. Sometimes, through the autumn leaves or the bare branches, I discover some movement in the windows. These observations of the neighborhood through the tree had the accompaniment of a dissonant violin notes. The violinist neighbor, who doggedly rehearsing in the front window, it was becoming an everyday presence. On the morning of January 21st, 2008 he committed suicide by jumping naked from his window. He was my age and the only think that I have known about him, is that recently prepared a new translation of “Werther” by Goethe, the main story of my adolescence. That date “1900” does not refer here to the origin of a century –mine, the cinema’s one- but the end of the previous century.
◎ Director's Statement
WHY: I would use my camera to explore and learn, to give me an answer and maybe to find some of my actual neighbors. I understand cinema as an experience and knowledge. So I would use it without too many preconceived ideas, predisposed to revelation. I start from the idea that my neighborhood, like any neighborhood, contains echoes of the world.
◎ Production Date
- Jan. 2011: In production (shooting)
- Feb. 2011: Post-production
The Choice of 2011
Q&A
1. How do you feel about joining the project, Jeonju Digital Project 2010 and what kind of work you want to deliver through this project?
Honestly I do not know, and maybe if I knew, I would lose the desire to do it. A film is born from a stimulus that is only understandable –not always- while you are making it. At least that’s been my experience. I like to favor the small and close observation as indicative of the great themes (love, death, money, creation, History… those stuff)
2. What was you motivation deciding to participate in this project? Do you have any special relationships with JIFF?
. I was invited by Jeonju Festival in May 2008 to present “In the City of Sylvia” and “Some photos in the City of Sylvia”. The audience is very attentive and respectful. Civilized and cinephile at its best sense. I could confirm after attending the magnificent selection of filmmakers that brings the Jeonju Digital Project and I am honored to participate. I remember fondly the walks with "Kim ", my angel, a 19 years-old girl who moved his hands with a harmony and an exquisite grace to be understood with the 4 words in French that she knew. And the rigor of "Violet", my maternal Spanish translator in interviews very long and thorough. To avoid falling into clichés, I will say it was an affectionate relationship with Jeonju.
3. How do you want you as a director and your works to be introduced to Korean audience?
I would like to introduce myself to the Korean audience through my films.
4. How would you explain your own style and philosophy when making films?
Shooting is my natural way of interacting with the world and, consequently, is my way of seeking an identity. I understand cinema as a long-haul road, without shortcuts or strategies, with lonely and steep sections, and others more comfortable, but with the awareness that is your journey, the only one you can do
.
5. Please let us know if there is an on-going project you are currently working on, and your future plan.
I will prepare the shooting of a film that has only an image as a starting point: that of a woman walking in an unfamiliar town holding the hand of her young daughter. In parallel, I am finalizing a filming - correspondence relationship with Jonas Mekas: an exchange of "film-letters" which is now in its fourth installment, which should conclude in April.
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The Choice of 2011
José Luis Guerin
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1960, Barcelona, Spain. José Luis Guerin’s official filmography begins in 1983 with Los motivos de Berta (Berta’s Motives), his first feature film, but in fact it starts previously with a list of Super 8 and 16mm’s short and medium length films, directed between 1975 and 1982, which the director recognizes merely as the “product of someone who is discovering the world and culture” within the context of his teen years and a life in which cinema was “the way of relating to the world”.
He has received numerous awards, including the National Film Award of Spain (Premio Nacional de Cinematografía, 2001). His work, internationally recognized with Work in Progress (En construcción) (2001) and specially with the diptych In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia) (2007) / Some photos in the City of Sylvia (Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia) (2007), is built from the mingled possibilities of the documentary and fiction genres.
In 2007 he was one of the artists invited to take part in the Spanish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art, where he presented the video installation Las mujeres que no conocemos (Women We Don’t Know). Because of this experience have emerged others works dealing with how to display movement images in the space of a museum, like The Lady of Corinth (La Dama de Corinto) (2010) that explores the relationship between cinema and the art of painting.
FILMOGRAPHY
2010 Guest
2007 Las mujeres que no conocemos (Women We Don’t Know) (installation, Spanish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art)
2007 En la ciudad de Sylvia (In the City of Sylvia)
2007 Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (Some Photos in the City of Sylvia)
2001 En construcción (Work in Progress)
1997 Tren de sombras (El espectro de Le Thuit) (Train of Shadows)
1990 Innisfree
1983 Los motivos de Berta (Fantasía de pubertad) (Berta’s Motives)
The History of Jeonju Digital Project 2000-2010
- The Decade of Its History
Jeonju Digital Project 2010
Pig Iron
James Benning | 2010 |30min | HD | Color
• Synopsis
PIG IRON is a 30 minute dramatic narrative. Iron ore is super heated in a blast furnace to make pig iron, which in turn is used to produce steel. The making of steel is a continuous process. Pig iron is moved from the blast furnace to the steel plant by railroad. The trains are operated by remote control.
• Director | James BENNING
Born in 1942, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He studied film under David Bodwell at the University of Winconsin-Madison. He has worked as an independent filmmaker ever since and joing faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in 1987. In 2005, Film Comment chose his film 13 Lake as one of the year’s Best Unreleased Films.
Les lignes enemies
Denis Côté| 2010 | 43min |HD | Color
• Synopsis
Six men. The forest. The menace is there somewhere. Armed, ready, looking for action, they wander, day and night, striving for a confrontation.
• Director | Denis Côté
Born in 1973, New-Brunswick, Canada. He completes his studies in Arts and Cinema at Montreal’s Ahuntsic College in 1992. His debut feature Drifting States shared a Golden Leopard in the video competition of the 2005 Locarno Film Festival. All That She Wants, his third feature, won Silver Leopard at 2008 Locarno Film Festival.
Rosalind!
Matías Piñeiro | 2010 | 40min |HD | Color
• Synopsis
A group of actors retire to an island in Tigre to prepare William Shakespeare’s “As you like it”.
Far from the city and just before starting the essay, Luisa, the one who personify Rosalind in the play, decides –badly- to settle her sentimental relationship by the Mobile phone: She cries and leaves herself to the rejection.
During that day, between work and daydream, Luisa goes from the wardrobe test to the dialogue reviews through the direct interpretation of the text confirming Rosalind as the desired object of all the cast: Celia, Orlando, Febe.
Finished every essay, while the food is in the barbeque, Luisa finds her play Partners that, with their couples, decide to have a day in the country. The meetings with each of them, improve her solitude and the wish of being accompanied, though that means to be the stupid wish of receiving a possible sudden call.
• Director | Matías Piñeiro
Born in 1982, Buenos Aires, Argentine. He studied at Unversidad del cine, where he now teaches Film History and work as co-programmer of the cine-club and International Film School Festival. He worked as an assistant director in several short films and in the feature film Another Return (2004) by Santiago Palavecino and a second assistant in Nocturnal Music (2007) by Rafael Filippelli. In 2002, he directed his short A Quiet Woman in 16mm. His feature debut won Woo-suk award (Gran Prix) at Jeonju International Film Festival 2008.
Jeonju Digital Project 2009 : Visitors
Lost in the Mountains
HONG Sang-soo| 2009 | 31min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Misook is on her way to Jeonju city to see her friend Jin-Young, riding her used car given newly as a gift by her brother in-law. However, Jin-Young is unable to stay longer hanging out with Misook, so Misook spends the night with Sangoak, her teacher and her ex-boyfriend. Next day, at Jin-Young’s place, Misook accidentally finds out the relationship going on between Sangoak and Jin-Young by looking at Sangoak's stuff at Jin-Young‘s place and she feels betrayed. With an agony she calls Myungwoo into Jeonju city…
• Director | HONG Sang-soo
Born in 1961. While studying Film Studies at Chung-Ang University in 1980, he went to the U.S, graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, and got his master's degree in Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was awarded the best award, Tiger Award for this debut work The Day a Pig Fell into the Well at Rotterdam International Film Festival and later competed at Cannes Film Festival for his works The Power of Kangwon Province, Woman Is the Future of Man, and Tale of Cinema.
Koma
Naomi KAWASE | 2009 | 35min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Back to seventy years ago, Koma was just the same, calm village holding the terraced rice fields. A man (Kitamura Kazuki) who visited the village for work found peace in hospitality by the husband and wife and their baby at a wealthy farmer’s home, and they reminded him of his child he left at home. That night, the baby suffered from strong fever, and he ran holding the farmer’s baby to the doctor over the hills, saving the little life. The wealthy farmer presented a scroll picture to the man as a token of appreciation. He felt a slight reminiscence that he once might have seen, in his own country, this honorable man with a gem in his hand. Because of its magnificence, he tried to decline the farmer’s gift, but the master was so insistent. The man, in return, handed the farmer his Pansori fan which he always carries with him as a memento of his mother.
• Director | Naomi KAWASE
Naomi KAWASE was born in 1969. She graduated from the Osaka School of Photography (currently the School of Visual Arts Osaka) in 1989 and has begun making films on 16mm and 8mm since her college days. Her work soon caught the spotlight both domestically and abroad. In 1997, KAWASE became the youngest winner of the Camera d'Or Award in the history of Cannes Film Festival for her first feature "Suzaku". In 2000, she garnered both of the FIPRESCI Prize and the CICAE Prize at Locarno International Film Festival for the film "Hotaru." Since then, Kawase’s work has drawn greater attention from the cineaste circles. Retrospectives on her work were organized in many places in Europe.
KAWASE is also highly recognized for her accomplishments in documentary filmmaking. Recent work includes “KyaKaRaBaA,” a co-production with the French TV station Arte, and “Tarachime-birth/mother,” a documentary that charts her process giving birth. The film has swept awards in international film festivals such as Locarno, Taiwan, Copenhagen and Yamagata.
In 2007, KAWASE won the Grand Prix of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for “The Mourning Forest,” and she continued to pick up challenging subjects in her latest film “Seven Nights.”
Butterflies Have No Memories
Lav Diaz | 2009 | 40min | DigiBeta | B&W
• Synopsis
Man is good and man is evil; man’s complex nature and existence has always been defined by these two opposite sides.
In a remote island in the Philippines, the inhabitants of a once-prosperous town have been struggling since a giant Canadian gold mining company was forced to close down. While the company’s departure carried an important victory for people who fought for its closure because of environmental concerns, it also made a lot of people bitter, angry and desperate. It was an economic debacle for them. And they perpetually long for the return of the company.
In these desperate times, Ferding, Santos and Willy drown their frustrations by endless drinking of alcohol. The visit of a young Canadian woman who was born in the mining village changed everything.
• Director | Lav Diaz
Born in 1958. Lav Diaz studied Economics at the University of Notre Dame and studied in the Film Institute in Mowelfund, Manila. He worked at a music magazine before making his debut as a director. Having started his career with The Criminal of Marrio Concepcion(1998), he gained international reputation through his Philippines Trilogy: Batang West Side, Evolution of a Filipino Family, and Heremias. The trilogy expresses the contrasting yet coexisting social paradigm of the Philippines as well as a considerable level of aesthetic achievement. Keeping to the production method of independent films and boasting of long running times compared with Hollywood conventions, Diaz's films reflect the lives of the Filipinos and suggest salvation through social struggle. Death in the Land of Encantos (2007); running time 9-hrs, screened at Jeonju International Film Festival in 2008 was picked as Special Mention, and his latest film Melancholia (2008); running time 8-hrs, won Venice Horizons Award at Venice International Film Festival.
Jeonju Digital Project 2008 : The Return
The Birthday
Idrissa OUÉDRAGO | 2008 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Awa is a beautiful and active young lady. She is from a low class and does not overcome it perfectly in her life. She has a boyfriend, Bouba, who is young and poor as well. Awa decides to marry Karim, a wealthy old man, but she can’t give up her love towards Bouba. When Karim discovers the affair between Awa and Bouba, he plans on taking his horrific revenge on Awa’s Birthday.
• Director | Idrissa OUÉDRAGO
Born in Burkina Faso 1954. Idrissa OUÉDRAGO studied film in Ouagadougou and in Kiev, Ukraine before he graduated from IDHEC in France in 1985. After several successful films and he became one of the most important African filmmakers. Yaaba and Tilai were awarded at Cannes Film Festival and he built his fame internationally.
Expectations
Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN | 2008 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Having left on a long journey across the desert, Moussa suddenly shows up in his village again one day. He clearly never reached his destination. Completely transformed by his ordeal, he is now apathetic, locked in silence, and indifferent to everything around him. But His creditors who leant him the money for his journey, are growing impatient.
• Director | Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN
Born in Beche, Chad in 1960. Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN studied film in Paris and then journalism in Bordeaux. He worked for several years as a journalist before returning to filming. In 1994, he directed his first short film Maral Tanie. Five years later he signed his first feature film Bye Bye Africa which won 2 prizes at Venice Film Festival, including that of Best First Film. In 2002, he directed Abouna, selected for the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. Darratt, his third film awarded Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival.
The Alphabet of My Mother
Nacer KHEMIR | 2008 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
An old woman is sitting with motionless and two eyes closed. Suddenly, a visitor shows up in the courtyard of the house while she is looking at the sunlight through a window. The turtle and a door open onto her memories and it makes her think of a memory about a rosary. The images of an unforgettable past remain in her mind with longing about her missing son.
• Director | Nacer KHEMIR
Born in Tunisia in 1948, Khemir has published several books as a writer and studied film in Paris on a Unesco scholarship. He is also an artist in painting, sculpture and calligraphy and was held his exhibition in the Pompidou Center in Paris. He worked as a storyteller of Arabian Night at the Chailot National Theatre in Paris. His film Wanderers of Desert was shown at JIFF 2005 and Bab’aziz at JIFF 2006.
Jeonju Digital Project 2007 : Memories
Respite
Harun FAROKI | 2007 | 42min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Respite is set in Westerbork, a transit camp for deportees to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz. Powerful images are captured after the SS officer Gemmeker ordered production of a film about the camp. An inmate, the German- born Jew Breslauer, filmed scenes of work, leisure and a train leaving for the death camps with a 16mm camera.
• Director | Harun FAROKI
Born in Nov´y Jicin, the Czech Republic, in 1944. As a noted media artist and theorist, he attended the Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1966 to 1968, and did freelance work in film and TV. He started his film career in the 1960s, and gained attention as his essay Who is Farocki? which was published in Cahiers du Cinema. He was also the editor of German film magazine Film critic and taught at several universities. He is currently a professor of media arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in Austria.
The Rabbit Hunters
Pedro COSTA | 2007│23min│DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
Fontain is a lost community, a shanty-town on the outskirts of Lisbon. This film shows the day-by-day stories of the residents eager for the new, better life announced with its promises of warm comfort and economic growth. We see characters like Virgilio who asks himself if he really needs another refrigerator, Benvindo and Maria who break-up and Isabel who can’t take it anymore.
• Director | Pedro COSTA
Born in Lisbon, in 1959. While studying history at University of Lisbon, COSTA switched to film courses, and learned editing and directing. After graduation, he gained experience working as an assistant director for several films and directing a TV show for children. In 1987, he directed his first short film. His first feature film The Blood was screened at Venice Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Critics’ Week. His latest film Colossal Youth was screened at the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival 2006.
Correspondences
Eugène Green│2007│39min│DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
Virgile and Blanche, who are both seventeen years old, exchange e-mails in their rooms. Virgile likes Blanche, but Blanche likes a boy named Eustache. However, they don’t know each other’s thoughts. Virgile talks about life and death, and Blanche accepts it. Eustache, wearing a blue hat, walks in. He first goes to Virgile, and then to Blanche. At that moment, Blanche remembers that she had danced with Virgile, and goes out of her room to meet him.
• Director | Eugène Green
Born in New York, in 1947. After moving to France in 1969, he studied literature, linguistics, art and film history and got a French citizenship in 1976. In 1999, he made his debut with Night After Night, at the age of fifty. In 2001, he received the Luis-Delluc Prize, and gained attention as his second feature The Living World was screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2003. His short film The Signs was also invited to the Cannes Film Festival. He is now working on The Silent Fields, Life is a Dream, and The Portuguese Nun.
Jeonju Digital Project 2006 : Talk to Her
About Love
Darezhan OMIRVAEVㅣ2006│38min│DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
Kairat, a lonely teacher of mathematic, accidentally meets Askar, along with whom he studied in university. Askar invites him at his home, where Kairat becomes acquainted with Togzhan, the wife of Askar. And he falls in love with her. Though this love was mutual, they couldn’t step over the obstacles already made by their lives. They and their emotions delayed. (The script is based on the novel by Chekhov’s 「About Love」. Also some bits from his novel 「Gooseberry」were included).
• Director | Darezhan OMIRVAEV
Born in 1958 in Kazakhstan. He studied mathematics at the University of Kazakhstan before entering the Moscow Film School (VGIK) in 1987. He worked as a critic before directing his debut feature film, Kairat (1991) which was invited to compete at Locarno and was awarded the Silver Leopard and the FIPRESCI Prize. As a charter member of the "Kazakh New Wave", OMIRVAEV is often referred to as the "Robert Bresson of Central Asia".
No Day Off
Eric KHOO | 2006│39min│DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
No Day Off charts four years in the life of Siti, a young woman who leaves her husband and baby boy in a remote village in Sulawesi to work as a maid in Singapore. The narrative unfolds through her perspective and captures her trials and tribulations as she works for three different families in Singapore.
• Director | Eric KHOO
Born in 1965 in Singapore. His first feature films, The Psychological Drama (1995) earned the author praise at home and abroad. His 3rd feature film was invited to screen as an opening film of the director’s fortnight of Cannes in 2005. It was applauded as a film that portraits a desire for being in love and loneliness dramatically. This film has been invited to, and awarded by many international film festivals. Awards include the Best Director Award at the Torino International Film Festival.
Twelve Twenty
Pen-ek RATANARUANG│2006│30min│DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
You see her checking in at the opposite check-in counter. You cannot help yourself but falling in love immediately. You get your boarding pass but she is gone. You go through immigration. You buy your wife her favorite perfume. Then you go and relax in the first class lounge waiting to board. You shut your eyes. You wake up and realize you are already on the plane. Your heart stops. She is sitting in the seat next to you, by the window. You and she will spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating, watching movies and sleeping by each other’s side- just like a married couple. Except you will not quarrel. In fact, you won’t even have a word with each other. Bon voyage.
• Director | Pen-ek Ratanaruang
Born in 1962 in Bangkok. He is one of the most remarkable directors in the film world and is a leading figure of emerging Thailand. He studied art history at Pratt Institute in New York. His first feature film, Fun Bar Karaoke, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1997 and was shown at a half dozen other festivals. His fourth film, Last Life in the Universe, won the best actor award for Tadanobu Asano at the Venice Film Festival and was Thailand's submission to the 2003 Academy Awards. This year, his recent film, Last Life in the Universe, which stars Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano and Korean actress KANG Hye-jung, heroine of Oldboy, was invited at Berlin Film Festival for the competition section.
Jeonju Digital Project 2005
Haze
Shinya TSUKAMOTOㅣ2005ㅣ28min │DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
A man wakes up to find himself confined in a small 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.
• Director | Shinya TSUKAMOTO
Born in Tokyo in 1960, TSUKAMOTO created Tetsuo, the Iron Man(1989), a B&W film on 16mm which brought him instant international fame as a director with an original and unique vision. Since then, he has made seven feature films. The famous cult film director is also an actor, and has performed numerous roles in films for many other notable Japanese directors. His representative works include Tokyo Fist, Bullet Ballet and A Snake of June.
Magician(s)
SONG Il-gon | 2005 | 40min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Magician is a name of a band. whose guitarist, Ja-eun, killed herself 3 years ago. Her boyfriend and the band’s drummer, Jae-sung reminisces her every 31st day of December. Jae-sung and their basist Myung-soo are awaiting for Ha-young, their vocalist in a desert forest in Kangwondo. It is snowing, the last night of December, and the time is quarter to midnight.
• Director| SONG Il-gon
Born in 1971, SONG Il-gon graduated from the Film Department of Seoul Institute of the Arts in 1994 and studied film directing at Lodz Film School in Poland in 1995. After graduation, he began getting international attention by winning the Grand Jury Award at Cannes Film Festival’s short film competition with Picnic(1999). In 2001, he was awarded Best New Director Award by the audience at the Venice Film Festival with his first feature, Flower Island. After he made a mystery thriller called Spider Forest in 2004 as one of the omnibus films for Green Festival.
Worldly Desires
Apichatpong WEERASRTAKUL│2005│42min│DigiBeta│Color
• Synopsis
A couple escapes their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. There is a song at night that speaks about an innocent idea of love and a quest for happiness.
• Director | Apichatpong WEERASRTAKUL
Born in 1970 in Bangkok, he has a Master degree of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since he began making films and videos in the early 90s, he has become one of the few filmmakers in Thailand who have worked outside the strict Thai studio system. He is active in promoting experimental and independent films through ‘Kick the Machine’ the company he founded in 1999. His representative works include Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady.
Jeonju Digital Project 2004
Dance with me to the End of Love
YU Lik wai | 2004 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Plasticity suffers from the Big Chill. The extreme weather condition prohibits any human existence on the ground surface. Near the 50th Periphery, an underground hostel sleeps under this deserted landscape. KIRIN is the doorkeeper of the hostel. He is an orphan and nobodies know exactly where he is from. People name him KIRIN simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied beer cans. This enigmatic young man lives in his own solitude until one day he meet the beautiful nomad LANLAN.
• Director | YU Lik wai
Born in Honk Kong in 1966, he graduated from INSAS of Belgium. His documentary Goddess of Neon(1996) received Independent Short Film Award of Hong Kong. Afterwards, he has been active as cinematographer. Received critical praise for his work in JIA Zhangke's Xiao Wu(1997), Platform(2000), Unknown Pleasure(2002) and Ann Hui's Ordinary Heroses(1998). Debuted with his first feature film Love Will Tear Us Apart and directed his second feature film All Tomorrow's Parties in HD, which had gone onto being invited to "Un Certain Regards" at Cannes 2003.
Influenza
BONG Joon-Ho | 2004 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
The film starts with a man named CHO Hyuk-rae who has perched dangerously on top of the Han River Bridge. It is a sad picture of a man who has been caught unwittingly on a security camera. The camera continues to reveal the downward spiral of Cho and those of us who surround him. The 'real' images shown through the camera keep on becoming more 'corrupted' as the time goes by.
• Director | BONG Joon-Ho
He was born in October 1969. His short film Incoherence(1994) was invited to Vancouver International Film Festival and showcased his directorial talent. With his debut feature film, A Highter Animal, he visited JIFF in its first year. And with Memories of Murder he received Silver Shell Best Director's Prize and Altadis Critics Award at San Sebastian Film Festival in 2003 and Holden Award for Best Screen Play and Audience Award in Torino as well. He has now become one of the leading stars of Korean film industry.
Mirrored Mind
Ishii SOGO | 2004 | 40min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
A film actress writing a script by herself, has a mysterious experience like in a movie. She feels like she's lost something vital in her heart and finds herself very much distressed over the difficult process of writing a script and acting. One night, she meets a lonely woman like her shadow on the street in central Tokyo. Then she decides to no on a trip to Southeast Asia where she wanted to go to for a long time escaping the hardships involved in making a movie. But, she wonders why this trip feels like it's something like a trip of the soul.
• Director | Ishii SOGO
He was born in Fukuoka in 1957. His film Bust City, made in 1982, earned fervent support of the Japanese punk generation and brought him to the stature of a cineaste. In 1994, he made a comeback to feature length film with Angel Dust, a psychological thriller and afterwards with August in Water(1995), Labyrinth of Dreams(1997), Gojoe(2000) and Electric Dragon 80,000W(2000), where he showed his unique style.
Jeonju Digital Project 2003
Like a Desperado Under the Eaves
Shinji AOYAMA | 2003 | 40min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats Buddhist prayers night and day. On the floor above, there lives a strange middle-aged man who wants to be kicked out of the apartment. Such an ordinary day exists. Akihiko is standing still on the street at dawn.
• Director | Shinji AOYAMA
Born in Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka Province, Japan on July 13th, 1964, AOYAMA Shinji graduated from Rikkyo University and made his debut into the cinema world as artassistant. He participated in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's, Fridrik Fridriksson's, and Daniel Schmid's as assistant director. In 2000, his film with running time of 3 hours 37 minutes was invited to the Cannes Festival and received high acclaim.
Daf
Bahman GHOBADI | 2003 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Kurdistan - a village near the boarder with Iraq Faegh, a hawking player has three wives and 11 children. His occupation with his wives and children is to make musical instrument, called Daf. Daf is the most famous Iranian instrument with a special site among Kurds. They make this instrument from the sheep hide. The ceremonies for making such instruments take them to the city and sell to large stores for a little money. They live in absolute poverty. They are also very professional and skillful players who sometimes play for a very little money. For the prohibition of playing among women in Iran, the wives play people and train them nightly, how to play Daf. This Film is a combination of music and life and we enter into the life of this strange family. They play this instrument both on the day of new birth and on the day of funeral.
• Director | Bahman GHOBADI
Born in 1969, Bahman Ghobadi began to produce films with other young amateur filmmakers of Sanandaj. His short film Life In Fog received Special Jury Prize at the Clemont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. In 2000, His film The Hours of the Drunken Horses (Zamani Baraye Masti Asbha) received International Critics Prize and the Golden Camera Prize at the Cannes Festival.
Digital Search
PARK Ki-Yong | 2003 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
First, I meet with a movie critique K to learn more about the aesthetics of digital technology. Then I earnestly begin to explore the digital world. First I explore Seoul, the setting of my everyday life, and then I explore people with my digital camera. I wish to catch another aspect of these people that I have not been able to see thus far. After I finish my first exploration with my digital camera, I go over my findings with a digital editing machine. I wonder what I will fine and how I will feel when I finish this personal digital exploration.
• Director| Ki-Yong Park
Born in 1961, PARK Ki-Yong graduated from the Department of Film Studies at Seoul Institute of Arts. He produced To The Starry Island directed by PARK Kwang-Su and Cinama On The Road directed by JANG Sun-Woo. In 1997, his first full-length feature, Cactus Motel (Motel Seoninjang) received the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. It also received the FIPRESCI Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Jury Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival. In 2001, Camel(s) received the Grand Prize and Best Script Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival. He is currently residing as director at the Korean Academy of Film Arts.
Jeonju Digital Project 2002
Survival Game
MOON Seung-Wook | 2002 | 39min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Adults play war-game with almost real equipments and uniforms as if they in actual military training. Survival game became very popular recently. K is a stock broker who tries to earn lots of money through a swindle. He incites people to put money on the scheme. But his plan is revealed by the police and one of the people who was involved in the scheme hangs himself. He becomes a fugitive. K finds himself in the middle of a survival game. His Friend is teaching him how to play it. At first, it is purely a game of people who want to escape from their everyday stress. While shooting guns, he realizes that this is not a game any more. All of a sudden, the players come to shoot real guns to one another. Real war is going on in the quiet wood. The only way K can escape from it is killing everyone including his friend. He thinks his friend is selling him over to the police. he has no where to hide now. Confronting the police and the gamers, he decides to shoot himself. When he triggers the bullet, he knows suicide is not that easy.
• Director | MOON Seung-Wook
Born in 1967 in Seoul, Korea. He was a first Korean student at the national Film Academy of Utz in Poland and finished the directing course at 1998. His first 35mm short film was awarded Judge special prize and Art-Distribution Prize from the 1st Seoul Short Film Festival, 1994. He debuted at 1988with his first feature film, a story based on his documentary about a Taekwondo master in Poland, 1996. He has drawn public attention after his second feature film has awarded from Locarno Film Festival 2001. Filmography : Nabi-Butterfly(2001), Alien(1997)
The New Year
WANG Xiaoshuai | 2002 | 32 min 30sec | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
While my mother and I were waiting for our permanent residentship in the U.S, which was taking so long to obtain because of the previous 9.11 terror, my father became seriously ill back at home. My uncle was looking after my father at the hospital all by himself, soon after the stay at the hospital my father realized that he has not much time live and he left the hospital. He wanted to live his last days at home for the spring festival.
• Director | WANG Xiaoshuai
Born in 1965 in Shanghai. In 1988, he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy. He worked as an assistant director at Fujiang Studio and has also participated in MAMA directed by Zhang Yuan. He is considered to be one of the most talented directors of the 6th Generation of Chinese filmmakers. His film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival 1999. Filmography : Beijing Bicycle(2001), So Close to Paradise(1999), Frozen(1996), Suicides(1994) and The Days(1993)
A Letter From Hiroshima
SUWA Nobuhiro | 2002 | 36min 30sec | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
Korean actress Kim Ho Jung receives a letter of Japanese director SUWA Nobuhiro. It says " I need your help to make my new movie. Right now, I'm in Hiroshima working on a project I would like to do with you. Please come to Hiroshima." They met once at a European film festival and promised there to work together someday. She has no clue on what she will do. But she accepts the offer and leaves for Hiroshima right away. When she arrives at Hiroshima, there's no to pick her up at the airport. She has to wait at the hotel without knowing anyone's contact in Japan. After a while, a translator visits Kim and delivers SUWA's word. "I can't meet you at the moment. Please look around Hiroshima city first." She doesn't know the reason why the director is mot coming. Kim walks in the street of Hiroshima. She visits Peace memorial hall and sees images of war. She is totally overwhelmed with the images on the day of bombing. At the same time, SUWA is playing with his son. He is not ready to meet her. he is in confusion. Kim is at the torn-apart Dome-the relic of the time. And there, she comes across SUWA. In the sunset, Kim, SUWA and his son climb the hill of Hiroshima and look out the city.
• Director | SUWA Nobuhiro
Born in 1960 in hiroshima, Japan, he obtained an international attention after receiving an award at PIA Film Festival with his 8mm film Released Gang in 1985, After formally debuting with his work 2/Duo in 1997, he received the NETPAC award for 2/Duo and the FIPRESCI award for his second feature M/Other at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His latest H Story was paying attention as one of new cineaste. He has began a new career as a professor or film study at Tokyo Univ. Filmography : H Story(2001), M/Other (1999), 2/Duo(1997)
Jeonju Digital Project 2001
In Public
JIA Zhang Ke | 2001 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
A little train station near suburban area, a bus stop in the mining city, inside the bus that has been transformed as a restaurant, a lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired old man, a bubbly young lady, a punk, a woman waling in the street.. From all those different people in this unfamiliar place, we can feel the exhaust of every life.
• Director | JIA Zhang Ke
JIA was born in Fengyang, a small town of Shanxi Province, in Dhina in 1970. He graduated from the Department of Literature ar the Beijing Film Academy and started making movies while studying there. His feature film debut, Testament(1997), was one of the Asian movies which drew international attention that year. In spite of the Chinese government's interference in shooting, his second film, Platform won the Grand-Prix and the Judges' Special Prize at the Nantes Continental Film Festival last year. In appreciation of his potential in alternative films, the First JIFF screened his Xiao Shan Going Home, which is the first part of Testament, in its main program of the Asian Indie-Cine Forum.
A Conversation with God
TSAI Ming Liang| 2001 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
In the beginning, I have thought of a psychic medium as my subject matter. I found it interesting and unbelievably accurate. One night I heard that the psychic was on trance and the God was being awakened. In much hurry, I jumped on my 50cc motorbike, equipped with my DV camera, I was determined to ask, face to face, via my DV, whether the God could please grant me permission to film Her. The most curious thing happened. While I was on my way, I was caught in a traffic jam. There was a ceremony being held in a nearby temple. People gathered feasting and the banquet tables took over a large part of the road. Alas. There was another God here celebrating her birthday. My camera did not capture any God. Instead I have discovered A Conversation with God.
• Director | Tsai Ming Liang
A master director of Taiwan's New Wave Cinema following in the footsteps of HOU Hsiao-Hsien. Born in Kudhing, Malaysia in 1957, he later moved to Taiwan's to study film in 1977. He subsequently majored in film and Drama at the Cultural University of Taiwan. After graduation, he wrote screenplays for TV drama for10 years. Rebels of the Neon God, a film on the pessimistic delinquent youths of Taipei, won an award in the Tokyo Film Festival and other international film festivals. He has created his own unique style and subject matter in Viva L'amour, The River, and The Hole, which deal with alienation in modern society, shown through daily life in Taipei, with restrained dialogue and images
Digitopia
John AKOMFRAH | 2001 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color, B&W
• Synopsis
Digitopia is a film in search of the emotional undercurrents of the digital, a film about a man living between an analogue and digital worlds, a man who works in the former but seeks his pleasures in the latter. He is a man who is in search of love in the digital domain, through the net and over the phone, but who wants his relationship to be in the analogue world. This space is his world of Digitopia.
• Director | John AKOMFRAH
An internationally acclaimed director in digital films, whose film Riot won the Grand-Prix of N-Vision at the first JIFF. He is a member of the Black Audio Film Collective, which was organized in 1982 to produce experimental and engagement movies. His special interest has been the area of racial discrimination. Since the mid-1990s, he has been involved in both analogue and digital film work. He received the John AKOMFRAH Award for his documentary debut, Handsworth Songs. He also received the N-Vision Award from the 1st JIFF.
Jeonju Digital Project 2000
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PARK Kwang-Su | 2000 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
The actress who always has been in porn films stars in a serious movie which she dreamt of for a long time. But she has to shoot a scene of love making again in this film. The troubles and crash she experiences..
• Director | PARK Kwang-Su
Born in 1955, he studied art at Seoul national University. After studying at Paris ESSEC, he debuted with Chilsu And Mansu(1988) after returning to Korea He has received not just national but international recognition for his films Black Rrpublic(1990), To The Starry Island(1993), A Single Spark(1995), and Les Insurges(1999). He is currently working at the Korean National University of Arts as a professor.
Dal Segno
KIM Yun-tae | 2000 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color
• Synopsis
A cab driver blacks out and loses his cab at night. Next morning, he tries to remember the thing happened last night, finding another different side of himself..
• Director | Yun-tae Kim
Born in 1962, he studied at Seoul Arts College where he studied broadcasting. Usually, he has made experimental films including Wet Dream(1992) and Dowsing(1996). The latter won the first prize at the Korean Short Film Festival. He has also participated in national exhibitions with his video works Slapdash/Concoction(1995), Video Ritual(1997), and media performance works including B.A.R.T.
Jin Xing Files
ZHANG Yuan | 2000 | 30min | DigiBeta | Color, B&W
• Synopsis
She is seen on the black and white screen. A huge ring is on one of her fingers and her fingernails are finely manicured. She wears a worried look. As the screen changes into color, she is smiling with gorgeous dress and makeup on. What has happened to her? There is nothing notable in the talk she gives to the audience, but her description is very vivid and realistic. She gets a certain distinctive experience that has made her feel the loneness of human being. Back in black and white screen she is on operation table. She says that she has seen a ghost. She runs away from the ghost and vanishes into the brightness on screen. She smiles shyly on black/white screen. Now she starts dancing passionately.
• Director | ZHANG Yuan
Born in Nanjing. After he graduated from Beijing Film Academy, he debuted with MAMA(1990). His films; Beijing Bastard, Song, East Palace West Palace, have all won prizes at film festival. He is the representative director of the 6th generation directors of China.
Jeonju Digital Project
2000-2010
Festivals & Achievements
| Jeonju Digital Project 2000-2010 Festivals & Achievement |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2000: N |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival 'Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers' 2000-2005 Retrospective', Switzerland |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2001 |
| 2001. 08 | Venice Film Festival, Italy |
| 2001. 09 | Toronto International Film Festival, Canada |
| 2001. 10 | Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan |
| 2001. 10 | Flanders International Film Festival, Belgium |
| 2001. 10 | DIG.IT Film Festival, USA |
| 2001. 11 | BATIK Film Festival, Italy |
| | Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece |
| | Digital Arts Festival, UK |
| 2002. 01 | International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| | DIGTALE-Bologa Film Archive Cinema, Italy |
| 2002. 03 | Digital Talkies Film Festival, India |
| 2002. 04 | Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore |
| | Vision du Reel International Film Festival, Switzerland |
| | Chicago Filmmakers, USA |
| 2002. 06 | Sydney Film Festival, Australia |
| | International Documentary Film Festival of Marseille, France - Grand Prize Winner |
| 2002. 11 | Les Rencontres du Cinema Documentaire, France |
| 2002. 12 | by Tsai Min-Liang, Cinemateket - Tsai Min-Liang Retrospective, Sweden |
| 2003. 01 | Chinese Independent & Mainland Film & Video Festival |
| 2003. 02 | Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong |
| 2004. 11 | by Jia Zhangke, Torino International Film Festival, Italy |
| | by Jia Zhangke, Asiana International Short Film Festival, Korea |
| 2004. 12 | by Jia Zhangke, Seoul Independent Film Festival, Korea |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival 'Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers' 2000-2005 Retrospective', Switzerland |
| 2008. 02 | by Jia Zhangke, BFI Southbank in London, UK |
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| ▶Jeonju Digital Project 2002 : After War |
| 2002. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland |
| 2002. 10 | Flanders International Film Festival, Belgium |
| 2002. 11 | Les Rencontres du Cinema Documentaire, France |
| | International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain |
| | Asian Film & Cultural Festival, Ryon, France |
| 2003. 02 | Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong |
| 2003. 04 | Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina |
| | Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore |
| 2003. 06 | New York Asian Independent Film Festival, USA |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival 'Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers' 2000-2005 Retrospective', Switzerland |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2003 |
| 2003. 06 | Released as downloadable source by KTF, a Korean Mobile Company |
| 2005. 01 | Aired on Sky Perfect TV, Japan |
| 2005. 03 | Pesaro Film Festival, Italy |
| 2006. 03 | International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| 2006. 04 | Barcelona Asian Film Festival(BAFF), Barcelona, Spain |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival 'Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers' 2000-2005 Retrospective', Switzerland |
| 2007. 02 | by Bahman Ghobadi, Black Movie Festival, Switzerland |
| 2008. 11 | by Aoyama Shinji, France |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2004 |
| 2004. 09 | Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada |
| 2004. 10 | Kanazawa Community Film Festival, Japan |
| 2004. 10 | Morioka Film Festival, Japa |
| 2004. 11 | Torino International Film Festival, Italy |
| 2004. 11 | Theatrical Release in Japan |
| 2005. 03 | DVD Release in Japan |
| 2005. 04 | Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore |
| | Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong |
| 2006. 03 | International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| 2006. 04 | Barcelona Asian Film Festival, Spain |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival 'Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers' 2000-2005 Retrospective', Switzerland |
| 2007. 02 | by Bong Jun-ho, Black Movie Festival, Switzerland |
| 2008. 07 | by Yu Lik Wai, Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2005 |
| 2005. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland |
| 2005. 09 | Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada |
| 2005. 10 | Vienna International Film Festival, Austria |
| 2005. 11 | Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan |
| | Torino International Film Festival, Italy |
| 2005. 12 | CineAsia Film Festival Köln, Germany |
| 2006. 01 | Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands |
| 2006. 02 | Film Comment Selects, New York, USA |
| | Cineastes Organization Osaka EX = CO2, Japan |
| 2006. 03 | SilverLake International Film Festival, USA |
| | International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| | Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Hong Kong |
| 2006. 04 | Barcelona Asian Film Festival(BAFF), Barcelona, Spain |
| 2006. 05 | Kino otok / Isola Cinema Film Festival , Slovenia |
| 2006. 06 | Seattle International Film Festival, USA |
| | Darklight Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2006. 07 | Theatrical Release in Korea |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival 'Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers' 2000-2005 Retrospective', Switzerland |
| 2006. 09 | Worldly Desires by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Centre Pompidou, France |
| 2006. 12 | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia |
| 2006. 10 | Chicago Art Institue, USA |
| 2007. 03 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Centre Pompidou, France |
| 2007. 04 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Rencontres Internationales de Cinema Paris, France |
| 2007. 07 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cinematheque Francise, France |
| 2007. 11 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Seoul Independent Film Festival, Korea |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Art Centre Beursschouwburg, Belgium |
| 2008. 01 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Anthology Film Archives in New York, USA |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, CineFamily in Los Angeles, USA |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Harvard Film Archive, USA |
| 2008. 02 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cinematheque Ontario, Canada |
| 2008. 03 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, International House in Philadelphia, USA |
| 2008. 04 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, USA |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cinema Project in Portland, USA |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, SPO, Japan |
| | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, DVD Released by BFI, UK |
| 2008. 11 | by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Soundtrackcologne, Germany |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2006: Talk To Her |
| 2006. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland |
| | Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Thailand |
| 2006. 09 | International Eurasia Film Festival, Republic of Kazakhstan |
| | Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong |
| | Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada |
| 2006. 10 | Vienna International Film Festival, Austria |
| | Flanders International Film Festival, Belgium |
| 2006. 11 | Asiatica Film Mediale, Roma, Italy |
| | Festival of the 3 continents, Nantes, France |
| 2006. 12 | Seoul Independent Film Festival, Korea |
| | Jakarta International Film Festival, Indonesia |
| 2007. 01 | Theatrical Release in Korea |
| 2007. 02 | Cineastes Organization Osaka EX = CO2, Japan |
| | Black Movie Festival, Switzerland |
| 2007. 03 | International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| 2007. 03 | by Eric Khoo, Centre Pompidou - Hors Pistes, France |
| 2007. 04 | Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina |
| 2007. 04 | by Eric Khoo, IndieLisboa-Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal |
| 2007. 05 | Digital Barcelona Film Festival, Spain |
| 2007. 07 | by Eric Khoo, Film Mutations – Festival of Invisible Cinema, Croatia |
| 2007. 11 | by Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Reel Asian Film Festival, Canada |
| | by Eric Khoo, Cahier du Cinema - Festival D'automne, France |
| 2008. 11 | by Eric Khoo, DVD Released in Singapore, Singapore |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2007 : Memories |
| 2007. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland - Special Jury Prize Winner |
| 2007. 09 | New York Film Festival, USA |
| 2007. 10 | Vienna International Film Festival, Austria |
| 2007. 11 | Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark |
| | Torino International Film Festival, Italy |
| | Rencontres Internationales de Cinema Paris, France |
| | Theatrical Release in Korea |
| 2008. 02 | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, Spain |
| 2008. 03 | Cinema Apollo-Maison de L'image, France |
| | Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong |
| | by Pedro Costa, Cinematrix, Japan |
| 2008. 04 | Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Argentina |
| | IndieLisboa-Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Portugal |
| | Image Forum Festival, Japan |
| 2008. 06 | Films M.I.C.E.C, Spain |
| | by Pedro Costa, Onion City by Chicago Filmmakers, USA |
| 2008. 07 | Melbourn International Film Festival, Australia |
| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2008 : Return |
| 2008. 07 | Melbourn International Film Festival, Australia |
| 2008. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland |
| 2008. 09 | by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada |
| 2008. 10 | Vienna International Film Festival, Austria |
| 2008. 10 | by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, London International Film Festival, UK |
| 2008. 11 | Cambridge African Film Festival, UK |
| 2008. 12 | by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, by Idrissa Ouédraogo, Dubai International Film Festival, UAE - Special Jury Prize Winner |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2009 : Visitors |
| 2009. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland |
| 2009. 08 | Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival, Hong Kong |
| 2009. 09 | Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand |
| 2009. 10 | Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan |
| 2009. 10 | London International Film Festival, UK |
| 2009. 10 | Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema, Brazil |
| 2009. 10 | Viennale, Austria |
| 2009.10 | Cine Manila International Film Festival, Malaysia |
| 2009. 11 | Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece |
| 2009. 11 | International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2009. 11 | International Film Festival of India, India |
| 2009. 12 | Human Right Festival, Croatia |
| 2010. 01 | Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherland |
| 2010. 03 | San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, USA |
| 2010. 04 | Barcelona Asian Film Festival, Spain |
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| ▶ Jeonju Digital Project 2010 |
| 2010. 08 | Locarno International Film Festival, Fuori Concorso Section, Switzerland |
| 2010. 10 | Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Canada |
| 2010. 10 | by Denis Côté, Vienna International Film Festival, Austria |
| 2010. 10 | by James Benning, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark |
| 2010.12 | by Denis Côté, Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois, Canada |
| 2011.01 | by James Benning, by Denis Côté, Centre Pompidou, Hors Pistes, France |
| 2011.01 | , Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, USA |
| 2011.02 | The Enemy Lines> by Denis Côté, Film Festival in Montreal, Canada |
| 2011.02 | by Denis Côté, Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque, Canada |
| 2011.04 | Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina |
| 2011.05 | , Cinemateca Argentina, Argentina |
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| 2011 Jeonju International Film Festival Official Website www.jiff.or.kr JIFF Jeonju Office 470-4, Jeonju Multimedia Center #101, Jungnosong-dong, Wansan-gu, Jeonju, Korea Tel : +82 63 288 5433 Fax : +82 63 288 5411 JIFF Seoul Office 4F, Korea Stationery Center, 186-33 Jangchung-dong 2-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea Tel : +82 2 2285 0562 Fax : +82 2 2285 0560 Publicity Dept. Manager Rae-young KIM +82 10 2288 3668 Publicity Coordinator Ji-hyun YOON +82 10 4664 8302 E-mail : publicity@jiff.or.kr, foreign@jiff.or.kr |
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