March 01, 2006

So, A Kazakh, A Singaporean and a Thai Walk Into A Bar ...

(Posted In Asia Film News Random Festival News )

waves17small.jpgInformation for this year's edition of the Jeonju Film Festival is starting to trickle out - though sadly not in English yet - and tucked away in there is the news of this year's edition of their regular Digital Short Films From Three Filmmakers series. Commissioned for the project this year? Kazakh Darezhan Omirbayev - whose work I'm not familiar with - Singaporean Erik Khoo - Be With Me reviewed here - and official Thai super-genius Pen-Ek Ratanaruang of Last Life in the Universe fame.

And as excited as I am to see this year's edition it automatically raises one very important question: When will we get the chance to see LAST year's films? The long cut of Tsukamoto's HAZE is coming soon in the UK but there has been no word on either version of Song Il-Gon's Magician(s) or Weersethakul's films appearing anywhere. Please?

Thanks to Brian for the pointer.

» Posted by Todd at March 1, 2006 06:08 PM
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That just played in NYC at the Lincoln Center. below is the synopsis.

Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers
Masahiro Kobayashi, Japan, 2005; 82m
For the past five years the Jeonju International Film Festival in Korea has financed a unique ongoing project in which a trio of notable up-and-coming Asian filmmakers are invited to make a short film with digital technology and total creative freedom. The completed films are then assembled in an omnibus format. The latest edition features Japanese cult filmmaker Tsukamoto's Haze, an experiment in uncanny claustrophobia; Magician(s) by Korea's Song, in which the boundary between past and present dissolves during a reunion of the former members of a rock band; and Wordly Desires, in which Tropical Malady director Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the jungle for a film within a film about the shooting of a love story by day and a music video by night.

» Posted by Jae-Ho at March 1, 2006 11:27 PM

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