cho min-suk
'ann demeulemeester shop' (seoul, south korea), 2007
'ann demeulemeester shop' (seoul, south korea), 2007
'xi gallery' (yeonsan-dong, south korea), 2007
'xi gallery' (yeonsan-dong, south korea), 2007
'xi gallery' (yeonsan-dong, south korea), 2007
'oktokki space center' (ganghwa island, south korea), 2005
'cracked house' (tanhyeon-myeon, south korea), 2005
'pixel house' (paju city, south korea), 2002
'pixel house' (paju city, south korea), 2002
let's get lost
Ghosts in the photograph
never lied to me.
I'd be all of that
I'd be all of that.
A false memory
would be everything.
A denial my eliminent.
What was that for?
What was that for?
What would you do
if you saw spaceships
over Glasgow?
Would you fear them?
Every aircraft,
every camera,
is a wish that
wasn't granted.
What was that for?
What was that for?
Try to be bad.
Try to be bad.
"Is life understandable?"
I can’t exactly tell you how I’m different from other directors working with actors. Actually, I just leave them alone and let them do it by themselves. You may think this odd but, first of all, I recommend to actors that they have a sympathy and compassion for the characters they’re playing. What I tell them to do is to not act; do not try to act the character. I do not want actors in my films; I want characters. Not acting, being a character, is the most difficult thing to do. It’s very difficult to maintain principles and carry then out as characters believe they should.
When I direct my film and also when I direct my actors, actors often feel neglected because I leave them alone and sometimes they worry whether they’re doing the right thing or not. The actress who played Shin-ae [Jeon Do-yeon], she had to understand the character she was playing and so she had to experience emotions; she had to understand perfectly and fully the emotions the character was going through. Nonetheless, as the director, I couldn’t teach her how to feel these thing and—because of that—she kind of hated me. In the movie, the character Shin-ae later on in the film starts hating God and I think that hating somebody else in real life helped her act.
There are a lot of elements in making a film but what I think most important is the character. Good films are determined by how the characters are played and how the characters are delivered to the audience through the acting of the actors. When you see a film, especially a good film, you will experience that the characters are being delivered to you live and honest and real and that is what I look for in my films.
- Lee Chang Dong
the contemporary man.
your always cracking a smile,
always and another,
but yes.
and so it goes,
with this next step,
they always end up crying.
cause i'm back on that train.
never to be heard of again.
