▲ Part of a promotional video for the Tim Burton exhibition held at the City Museum of Art


Recently, there have been many opportunities to meet film directors in exhibition halls rather than movie theaters.

This is because the recent director's 'buccaneer' activities are active.



Today (4th), the art world announced that next month, in April, director Tim Burton, who is remembered as a film director full of personality, such as 'Scissors' (1990) and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (2005), is scheduled to have a solo exhibition.



Director Tim Burton is an artist who worked as an illustrator for Disney even before his film director debut, and has continued his writing career, starting with his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2009.



In addition to the 'bone character' as a film director who decorates the screen, he is engaged in 'sub-character' activities as an artist who meets viewers through art on canvas.


▲ Director Park Chan-wook


The activities of a famous director's 'buccaneer' can be easily found in Korea.



Director Park Chan-wook, who is familiar to us with 'The Bat' (2009) and 'The Handmaiden' (2016), also opened a solo exhibition 'Your Faces' in Busan last year and started working as a photographer in earnest.



Park Chan-wook compiled photos taken at the production site of the movie 'The Handmaiden' in 2016 and published a photo book called 'Close to the Handmaiden'. In the meantime, he has been exhibiting his photographic works little by little, and he officially held a solo exhibition at the International Gallery last year.

▲ Park Chan-wook, 'Face 6'


Opening his first solo photo exhibition, Chan-wook Park explained to himself that photography is an 'escape from the movie' and "the reason why I can't let go of my camera no matter how busy I am with film work."



Last month, he also released 'Face 166' (2021), which captures a specific moment in a parking lot and illuminates an unfamiliar point of a familiar object in 'OVR: 2021', an online viewing room in Art Basel, a world-class art fair.

▲ Part of the promotional video for Min Byung-hun's media art solo exhibition 'Forever and a day'


Min Byung-hun, well known as an artistic film director, is also continuing his 'buccaneer' activities as a media artist.



Min Byung-hun, who started his life as a media artist alongside a film director with the opening of his solo media art exhibition 'Forever and a Day' on the 22nd of last month, presented 20 video works depicting the nature of Jeju in this exhibition.



Min Byung-hoon graduated from the Russian National Film University and received the Grand Prize at the Turin International Film Festival with 'Flying Bee' (1998), 'It's Okay, Don't Cry' (2001) and 'Cut down the Vine' (2006), Art Contribution Award at Côte Boots International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary It has received attention by winning the Critics' Award at the International Film Festival and the Silver Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.



At a press conference held on the 17th, he said, "Irrespective of the work, if the number of audiences is small, the joy of making a film has disappeared." Said.



At the same time, he said that the media works of the solo exhibition are an extension of the film, and he plans to use them for actual film work in the future.

▲ Part of the movie 'Intruder'


However, director's 'buccaneer' activities do not exist only in the art world.

There are also film directors who are active in the publishing industry.



Son Won-pyeong, the director of 'Intruder (2020)' starring Kim Mu-yeol and Song Ji-hyo, is also working as a novelist, writing 'Almond' and 'The House of Others'.



In an interview with a media outlet in September 2020, Son Won-pyeong said, "It is probably the film director who is more exposed to the public, but the one who does the more work is writing. (Writing alone) It is a process of getting closer to yourself as a creator,” he also talked about his two jobs.



In this way, their 'buccaneer' activities, who are expanding their domain from the screen, are leading to a way to relieve their dissatisfaction with their 'native character' activities, or to expand and strengthen their lives as a 'real character'.



From popular celebrities to talented directors, the number of entertainers who challenge a wide range of arts is increasing, and the cultural life of visitors who enjoy them is becoming more diverse.



This is a 'news pick'.



(Photo = Courtesy of Kukje Gallery, Hyundai Card YouTube, Hori Artspace YouTube)