Asian cinema favorite Park Chan-wook (OLDBOY) recently shot a short horror film titled “Paranmanjang” (which translates to “Ups and Downs”) completely on an iPhone. The film runs 30 minutes and was produced for about $133,000. The poster can be seen to the right. The project is described:
The short is 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. He faints, then wakes up to find himself in the white clothes that the woman was wearing. The movie’s point of view then shifts to the woman and it becomes a tale of life and death from a traditional Korean point of view.
Park commented on the experience: “From hunting for a film location, shooting auditions, to doing a documentary on the filming process, everything was shot with the iPhone 4. We went through all the same film-making processes except that the camera was small.”
Park collaborated with his younger brother, media artist Park Chan-kyong, and Korean iPhone provider KT Corp. on the short. It will play in South Korean theaters on January 27th.
Making movies ain’t the only thing smart phones are good for!
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