Lee Chang-dong Classics
Acclaimed Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong is often described as a “poet of cinema.” A novelist before becoming a director, he is known for his restrained yet penetrating gaze on lives pushed to the margins by harsh social realities. Oasis portrays a misunderstood relationship between an ex-convict and a woman with severe cerebral palsy, finding a fragile refuge in love amid an unforgiving world. Poetry follows an elderly woman taking a poetry class as her life begins to unravel, confronting the uneasy coexistence of beauty and cruelty. The documentary Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony looks back on his creative journey and body of work, exploring how literature, social realities, and human struggle have shaped his cinema. Revisit Lee Chang-dong’s classics on Giloo, and discover how his uncompromising honesty reveals the rawest textures of human life.
AuthorGiloo紀實影音源自於「紀錄」的發音，是台灣唯一以影展及議題為導向的影音平台，搜羅台灣與全世界最重要的電影，致力打造影迷與知識影像的文化社群。
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Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.