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Song Il-gon is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Sud coréen born on 1 january 1971 at Seoul (Coree du sud)

Song Il-gon

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Nationality Coree du sud
Birth 1 january 1971 (53 years) at Seoul (Coree du sud)

Song Il-gon (born January 1, 1971) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter known for his internationally award-winning early short films, and later feature films such as Spider Forest (2004) and Feathers in the Wind (2005). Long more popular abroad than in South Korea, Song was the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Biography

Début
Song Il-gon a étudié les beaux-arts à l'Institut des arts de Séoul. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme, il a demandé de pouvoir étudier le cinéma aux États-Unis mais sa demande de visa a été rejetée. Song Il-gon décide alors d'entrer dans l'école nationale de cinéma de Łódź en Pologne. Il était le deuxième étudiant coréen à avoir fait ses études dans cette institution. Song Il-gon se tourne vers des thèmes influencés par la psychologie et la mythologie occidentale.


Carrière
À partir de 1998, Song Il-gon porte de l'attention à ses courts-métrages. Notamment avec Liver and Potato, un court-métrage qu'il a réalisé en s'inspirant de l'histoire des personnages bibliques, Caïn et Abel et a été filmé en Corée. En 1996, il réalise The Dream of the Clowns, un documentaire filmé dans un cirque polonais sur des étudiants de cirque qui veulent devenir clown. Ces deux films ont été présentés dans des festivals internationaux et sont également sortis dans des théâtres spécialisés en court-métrage en Corée du Sud.

En 1999, Song Il-gon réalise le film Le Pique-nique. Il fut le premier Coréen à avoir remporté un prix au Festival de Cannes. Il a reçu le Grand Prix du Jury du meilleur court-métrage et il a également reçu le Grand Prix du Festival international du film de Melbourne.

En 2000, Song Il-gon est demandé par le festival médiatique d'art, Seoul International Media Art Biennale pour faire un clip vidéo de cinquante secondes pour le projeter sur les panneaux d'affichage électroniques pour un mois. Même s'il a montré le scénario au gouvernement avant le tournage, les autorités ont censuré et ont supprimé après un jour. Flush, ce court-métrage parlait d'un sujet tabou à propos d'une adolescente en train de commettre un avortement dans les toilettes publiques.

En 2001, Song Il-gon réalise son premier long métrage Flower Island. Le film a été un succès international et qui lui a fait remporté le prix du meilleur premier film à la Mostra de Venise et au Festival international de films de Fribourg une mention spéciale et un prix de la fédération internationale de la presse cinématographique.

En 2003, Song Il-gon interprète le rôle de Ji-seok dans le film A Smile réalisé par Park Kyung-hee.

En 2004, Song Il-gon réalise le film Spider Forest. Pendant le tournage du film, les directeurs de la photographie étaient extrêmement dérangés à cause de son perfectionnisme et sa tendance à répéter de nombreuses fois tout en insistant sur le choix de l'objectif photographique et la distance exacte des caméras.

En 2005, Song Il-gon réalise le film Feather in the Wind. Le film devait être réalisé en court métrage d'une durée de trente minutes mais le studio de production et de distribution CJ Entertainment a donné des fonds pour faire le travail dans une fonction de libération individuelle. Le film a été le premier succès national de Song Il-gon et quelques critiques coréens acclament comme étant la meilleure romance coréenne jamais filmée en Corée.

En 2009, Song Il-gon réalise le film documentaire Dance of Time qui traite l'histoire de la diaspora coréenne à Cuba.

Usually with

Jo Sung-ha
Jo Sung-ha
(3 films)
Park Won-sang
Park Won-sang
(2 films)
Park Chul-min
Park Chul-min
(1 films)
Nam Na-yeong
Nam Na-yeong
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Song Il-gon (5 films)

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Actor

A Smile
A Smile (2004)
, 1h38
Directed by Park Kyung-hee
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jo Sung-ha, Chu Sang-mi, Song Il-gon, Park Won-sang
Roles Ji-Seok
Rating56% 2.837742.837742.837742.837742.83774
So-jung est une photographe indépendante qui veut partir étudier à l'étranger avec son petit ami Ji-seok. Un jour, elle apprend qu'elle pourrait perdre la vue à cause d'une maladie des yeux. Elle décide alors de quitter son ami, de renoncer à son rêve, et d'apprendre à piloter un avion…

Director

Always
Always (2011)
, 1h46
Directed by Song Il-gon
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors So Ji-sub, Han Hyo-joo, Jo Sung-ha, Park Chul-min, Goo Seung-hyun, Kang Shin-il
Rating76% 3.849783.849783.849783.849783.84978
Cheol-min, a man with a dark, mysterious past, gets hired at a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-hwa walks into the booth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point.
Feathers in the Wind, 1h13
Directed by Song Il-gon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lee So-yeon, Jang Hyun-sung
Rating71% 3.5813853.5813853.5813853.5813853.581385
A film director comes to a small island near Jeju-do where he had agreed to meet his first love 10 years before. The woman had gone to university in Germany after the promise was made, and married a German conductor. Not entirely expecting to meet her, he comes to the island to work on his second screenplay. While on the island, he develops a friendly relationship with a young woman who runs an inn with her uncle who has not spoken since his wife mysteriously left. On the appointed day, a piano arrives with news from the director's first love.
Spider Forest, 1h53
Directed by Song Il-gon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Kam Woo-sung, Jang Hyun-sung, Park Won-sang, Kim Young-jae, Jo Sung-ha, Kim Hee-jung
Rating64% 3.249713.249713.249713.249713.24971
Awaking alone in the middle of a dark forest, Kang Min sees a secluded cabin nearby and wanders towards it. Upon entering the small home, he is shocked to discover a brutal, bloody crime had taken place. A man, hacked repeatedly by a sickle, lies on the floor, dead. Min hears a noise nearby and discovers his girlfriend Su-Young, stabbed and nearly dead, stammering something about "spiders."
Flower Island, 1h55
Directed by Song Il-gon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.190843.190843.190843.190843.19084
The film is in three parts. The first introduces three women who are separately suffering from their own psychological injuries. In the second part, the three women encounter each other and other people as they are each on a journey to an island reputed to have healing powers. The last third of the film deals with the characters on a boat headed to the island.

Scriptwriter

Always
Always (2011)
, 1h46
Directed by Song Il-gon
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors So Ji-sub, Han Hyo-joo, Jo Sung-ha, Park Chul-min, Goo Seung-hyun, Kang Shin-il
Roles Writer
Rating76% 3.849783.849783.849783.849783.84978
Cheol-min, a man with a dark, mysterious past, gets hired at a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-hwa walks into the booth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point.
Feathers in the Wind, 1h13
Directed by Song Il-gon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lee So-yeon, Jang Hyun-sung
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.5813853.5813853.5813853.5813853.581385
A film director comes to a small island near Jeju-do where he had agreed to meet his first love 10 years before. The woman had gone to university in Germany after the promise was made, and married a German conductor. Not entirely expecting to meet her, he comes to the island to work on his second screenplay. While on the island, he develops a friendly relationship with a young woman who runs an inn with her uncle who has not spoken since his wife mysteriously left. On the appointed day, a piano arrives with news from the director's first love.
Spider Forest, 1h53
Directed by Song Il-gon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Kam Woo-sung, Jang Hyun-sung, Park Won-sang, Kim Young-jae, Jo Sung-ha, Kim Hee-jung
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.249713.249713.249713.249713.24971
Awaking alone in the middle of a dark forest, Kang Min sees a secluded cabin nearby and wanders towards it. Upon entering the small home, he is shocked to discover a brutal, bloody crime had taken place. A man, hacked repeatedly by a sickle, lies on the floor, dead. Min hears a noise nearby and discovers his girlfriend Su-Young, stabbed and nearly dead, stammering something about "spiders."
Flower Island, 1h55
Directed by Song Il-gon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.190843.190843.190843.190843.19084
The film is in three parts. The first introduces three women who are separately suffering from their own psychological injuries. In the second part, the three women encounter each other and other people as they are each on a journey to an island reputed to have healing powers. The last third of the film deals with the characters on a boat headed to the island.