South Korean Director Park Chan-wook has made a short film shot entirely on an iPhone. Life is But a Dream joins the list of recent films released also shot on an iPhone most notably the film Tangerine from 2015. The short film follows an undertaker who awakens a ghost when he appears to steal a coffin. The ghost of a warrior then forms a friendship with the undertaker who was trying to bury him. The film mixes musicals, martial arts, and romance together. The film incorporates a traditional Korean musical narrative known as Pansori and a traditional Korean outdoor play format called Madanggeuk to tell its story.
Park Chan-wook stated that he enjoys the freedom in making short films. Park reunited with cinematographer Kim Woo-hyung who worked on The Little Drummer Girl with him. The two used the phones Cinematic mode, macro video, night mode, apoetical image stabilisation and ultra-wide camera to create a cinematically impressive film.
Park Chan-wook has other projects in the pipeline as well. One of these is Decision To Leave witch follows a detective who falls for a mysterious widow who is the prime suspect of his ongoing murder investigation. As well as this a series called The Sympathizer is in the works about a half-French, half Vietnamese communists in the final days of the Vietnam war and their resulting exile form the United States.
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