Indie Film Producers
August 11, 2009The recent passing of master film director Yu Hyon-mok has dealt a great loss for all of us in cinema and other fields in Korea, and elsewhere around the world.
Yu was one of the greatest filmmakers Korea has ever produced. His movie “Obaltan (The Accidentally Fired Bullet)” has ranked as the best film in Korean film history on various opinion polls for a couple of decades. Personally, I regarded him as a mentor in film philosophy. Upon his demise, I was assigned the sad and painful duty of composing and reading a memorial poem at his funeral ceremony.
The sad event occasioned some thoughts and reflections about my own position in filmmaking as a dubious independent filmmaker depending largely on the strength of some recognition garnered at a few international video/film festivals and my long-abiding love for photography and film.
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