{"id":10552,"date":"2011-01-19T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2011-01-19T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:13:17","slug":"park-chan-wooks-iphone-film-night-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/01\/19\/park-chan-wooks-iphone-film-night-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook’s iPhone Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Footage has emerged of the new film Night Fishing<\/a>, <\/strong>which was\u00a0made on an iPhone by Park Chan-wook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When the director of Old Boy<\/a> (2004) and Thirst (2009) announced the project last week<\/a>, it sounded like some kind of gimmick, but a new trailer and behind the scenes featurette seem to suggest something more substantial.<\/p>\n

The Korean title is ‘Paranmanjang’ and it is a 30-minute fantasy with the following synopsis:<\/p>\n

“A fantastical tale that begins with a middle-aged man fishing one afternoon and then, hours later at night, catches the body of a woman.The panicked man tries to undo the intertwined fishing line, but he gets more and more entangled.<\/p>\n

He faints, then wakes up to find himself in the white clothes that the woman was wearing. The movie\u2019s point of view then shifts to the woman and it becomes a tale of life and death from a traditional Korean point of view.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the trailer:<\/p>\n

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Funded by the South Korean mobile carrier KT, it cost $130,000, features mostly black-and-white video and was shot on up to eight iPhone 4 devices.<\/p>\n

This behind the scenes film shows the full range of filmmaking equipment that was used to augment the cameras on each phone.<\/p>\n

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Despite the cost of the project, Park is a champion of smartphones as a relatively inexpensive tool to make films, telling the LA Times:<\/p>\n

\u201cFind a location. You don\u2019t even need sophisticated lighting. Just go out and make movies. These days, if you can afford to feed yourself, you can afford to make a film.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quentin Tarantino<\/a> is an admirer of Park and as well as chairing the Cannes jury which awarded Old Boy\u00a0the\u00a0Grand Jury Prize<\/a> in 2004,\u00a0he also regards Joint Security Area<\/a> (2000) to be one of best films made since 1992.<\/p>\n

> Park-Chan Wook<\/a> at Wikipedia
\n> Other films made on an iPhone 4 at Vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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