South Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park shot to international fame with his film Oldboy (and the Vengeance Trilogy), a gritty, hard-hitting revenge thriller with serious psychosexual overtones that’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen from Asia, let alone from South Korea. Chan-wook Park’s latest film, a collaboration with his brother Chan-kyong Park, is Paranmanjang, a horror/fantasy hybrid shot entirely by Apple iPhones. That’s right, Chan-wook Park shot a movie using nothing but iPhones and lenses.
“The new technology creates strange effects because it is new and because it is a medium the audience is used to,” Park told reporters Monday. “There are some good points of making a movie with the iPhone as there are many people around the world who like to play and have fun with them.” Park praised filming on the iPhone “because it is light and small and because anyone can use it.”
Paranmanjang is a 30-minute digital film scheduled to open in South Korea on January 27. According to Park, shooting with the iPhone was not different from shooting with a regular camera, and that it simply took the application of lenses to get the shots and style of shots wanted for the film.
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