Biography: Song Il Gon

Song Il-gon (conceived January 1, 1971) is a South Korean movie director and screenwriter known for his universally grant-winning early short movies and later element movies like Spider Forest (2004) and Feathers in the Wind (2005). Song was the principal Korean producer to win an honor at the Cannes Film Festival. Song Il-gon was brought into the world in Seoul on January 1, 1971. He concentrated on Fine Arts at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. After graduation, he applied to focus on film in the United States.

His visa application was dismissed by that nation, and Song instead went to the National Academy of Film in Łódź, Poland. He was just the second Korean understudy to learn at this foundation which is referred to for graduated class, Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Kieślowski. He was unable to manage explicitly Korean subjects or history while in Poland, Song went to topics affected by brain science and Western mythology. In 1998, Song’s short movies started drawing in worldwide consideration. Liver and Potato (1998) took its motivation from the scriptural story of Cain and Abel.

The Dream of the Clowns (additionally 1998) was shot at a Polish carnival. Both of these movies were displayed at global film celebrations, and both were delivered at short-film forte performance centers in South Korea. Song turned into the primary Korean to win an honor at the Cannes Film Festival with his short film Picnic (Sopoong, 1999), it won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. The Melbourne International Picture Festival also awarded this film the Grand Prix.

Back in Korea, Song asked by the Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Media City Seoul) to make a 50-second video clasp to be screened on electronic boards for one month. He made Flush, about a young lady submitting fetus removal in a public toilet. Although Song had shown the screenplay to the public authority before recording, the specialists edited and eliminated the short following one day for its untouchable subject.

Song’s first element film was Flower Island (2001), an anecdote around three ladies with mental injuries venturing out together to an island that is said to have mystical recuperating powers. The film was compelling universally, winning prizes at the Venice Film Festival and the Fribourg International Film Festival. Subsequently, Song played an acting job in chief Park Kyung-hee’s introduction film, A Smile (Miso, 2004).

Bug Forest (2004), Song’s subsequent element film, was not fruitful in the South Korean homegrown market, either with crowds or critics. But it was Song’s first film to be given an area 1 DVD discharge in the U.S.  Feathers in the Wind was initially arranged as a 30-minute short as a component of omnibus film 1.3.6. Yet, significant South Korean creation studio CJ Entertainment gave Song assets to do the work into an element for individual delivery. The subsequent movie was Song’s first homegrown achievement, with some Korean pundits acclaiming it as the best sentiment at any point recorded in Korea. The Magicians (2005) likewise started as a 40-minute short, 33% of the 2005 Jeonju Digital Project Talk to Her.  Song extended the trial carefully shot film into a 96-minute component done altogether in one next shot.

In February 2007, Song was accounted for to be chipping away at a film with the working title of Telephone Girl. A variation of the stage play Telephone Modern Girl, the movie managed Korea during the 1920s and 1930s, when the nation was modernizing under Japanese occupation. However, in January 2008, Song was supposedly in pre-creation for a period blood and gore movie set during the Joseon Dynasty entitled Sahwa (“Royal Massacre”). This film was planned to start shooting in March 2008. Celebrated 1990s entertainer Moon Sung-Keun was accounted for to play the lead job as a ruler managing murder just as issues of a powerful nature. These activities didn’t push through. 

In 2009 Song went to narratives, recounting the account of the Korean diaspora in Cuba in Dance of Time.  He additionally contributed the nominal short film to Sorry, Thanks, an omnibus film managing the significant connections individuals build up with their pets.

Continuously, which opened the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, was his first standard film. Inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, Song said he needed to make an “ordinary romantic tale which happens in the present metropolitan city.”

Song shot the narrative Forest of Time in Yakushima, Japan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has roused Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film, Princess Mononoke.