The JEONJU Digital Project (the JEONJU Cinema Project from 2014 onwards) is a landmark funding and development initiative realised through a close partnership with the South Korean city’s local government and the curatorial team of its annual film festival, that covers the entire production process of short, mid-length and feature film projects. The project, since it's inception, has produced the work of luminary filmmakers such as Tsai Ming-liang, Claire Denis, Pedro Costa, Matías Piñeiro, and Jean-Marie Straub, with two Korean and one or two international projects per year receiving direct funding.

This short programme of three alumni works hopes to explore and celebrate the successes of a truly unique gambit in global contemporary production and distribution, and will be followed by a conversation with Sung Moon, the festival's programmer and lead on the project.

Programme

Memories of a Morning, dir. José Luis Guerín, Spain/South Korea 2011, 45 min
"On the morning of January 21st, 2008 my violinist neighbor committed suicide by jumping naked from his window. He was my age and the only thing that I have known about him is that he recently worked on a new translation of Goethe’s Werther”. — José Luis Guerín

Worldly Desires, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/South Korea 2005, 40 min
"Worldly Desires is an experimental project where I invited a filmmaker friend, Pimpaka Towira, to shoot the love story by day and the song by night. The story, Deep Red Bloody Night, was written by my assistant who wanted to reprise a forbidden love story in a more romantic time in the past. I picked a pop song, ‘Will I be Lucky?’ to convey a sense of guiltless freedom one feels when being hit by love. The video is a little simulation of manners, dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005.” — Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Lost in the Mountains, dir. Hong Sangsoo, South Korea 2009, 31 min
Told from a female point of view, a young writer drives from Seoul to the city of Jeonju to visit her best friend.