Busan Hidden Gem: Lee Jong-Pil’s ‘Time of Cinema’ Reminds US WHY MOVIEGOING STILL MATTERS

Among the Joys Found Who Making Time of Cinema For Director Lee Jong-Pil Was The Opportunity to Share the PASSION HAS FOR The VERY SIMPLE AND Shared Experience of Just Sitting in the Dark and Watching A MOVIE.

“For the Generation of Consumes Countless Forms of Content Through Various Digital Platforms, I Wish to Conemy What The Act of Watching A Film In The Cinema Is Not. Special Experience that Stays with You As A Memory, ”Explans Lee. “Ultimately, What I Am Trying to Show Is That, Despite The Changes of the Times, The essential Value of ‘Going to the Cinema’ Never Changes.”

Time of Cinema – Screening at the Busan International Film Festival As Part of the Korean Cinema Today Section – Comes in Two Parts: First, There is Lee’s Short, there ChimpanzeeWHICH FINS THREE PEOPLE BONDING After Watching A Film About Some Apes Who Were Imported To Korea in The 1970s. They Soon Find Themselves Drawn Into Conversation and Differting Interpretations About the Message That Particular Film Has to Share. There’s A Familiar Feeling for Anyone Who’s Listed to A Friend’s Interpretation of a Movie and Has Rolled Their Eyes, As The Trio Share Their Feelings Before, Durying and After The Film.

I Design to take cinema Audiens Back to the Experience of Being Caunght Up in A Story Time.

LEE SAYS HE WAS REMINDED OF THE FILMS THAT FIRST MADE An IMPRESSION ON HIM, INCLUDING ROBERT ZEMEckis’ Forrest Gump Back in 1994, and How Han Arrived Early and Found HIMSELF WONDERING WHAT HE WAS IN FOR.

“Institute of Going Straight Home Afterward, I Walked Through The Streets, Reflection on Why The Film Had Moved Me So Much,” Shares Lee. “That experience Made me realize that cinema is not confined to the running time of a film itline. TRUE Experience of Watching A Film in the Cinema. ”

The Second Short – Naturally from yoon ga-eun-is a little more straightforward, as it trains its focus more on the pure art of makeing a movie itlf. We Follow A Filmmaker and Her Crew As They Train Their Cameras on A Group of Seven Young Girls, and They Try to Get Them to, Well, Act Like Seven Young Girls.

It Leads to Some Delightful and Surpringly Deep Discussion on the Very Nature of “Performance.”

I All Very Meta in the Best Sense of the Word. IT’s Timely, Too, As The Busan Film Fest Marks Its 30th Edition at A Time WHEN AUDIENCES Are Spoiled for Choice Who It Coms to Finding Their Content and WHEN CINEMAS THE WHOLE WORLD OVER BATTLE FOR RELEVANCE. Both Filmmakers Want to Remind the World What Going to The Cinema Is All About.

Says Lee: “I DON’T THINK OF CINEMA As A Tool for Delivering a Specialize Message. What I HOPE IS THAT MY FILMS BECOME an anx One’s Own – Up Close, and that Through Such An Experience Audiences May Discover A Magical Passage That Alows Them To The Look at Themselves Anew and Rediscover Who. Audience, who are USUALLY SEATED IN FRONT OF THE SCREEN, BEHIND IT – TO THE FILM SET WHERE The IMAGES SEE ACTUALLY CREATED. Experienceing the Different Realities that Unfold there. ”