Apple Enlists Korean Director Park Chan-wook to Shoot Martial-Arts Fantasy Movie Completely on iPhone

Apple tapped Park Chan-wook, amongst Korea’s most profitable and critically acclaimed administrators, to make a film shot solely on its newest iPhones.

Park’s “Life Is However a Dream” is the primary mission in Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” advertising marketing campaign to be produced, shot and edited solely in Korea. (Watch Park’s movie beneath or at this hyperlink.)

The movie blends martial arts with romance, darkish comedy and pansori (판소리) — Korea’s conventional musical storytelling method — to inform a surreal story that includes each a marriage and a funeral.

Within the 21-minute film, an undertaker digs up an deserted grave to steal a coffin for the burial of “White Marten,” a warrior who had died saving a village. Whereas digging, he by accident awakens the ghost of an historic swordsman. When that ghost tries to take again its coffin, it, in flip, rouses the lately deceased spirit of White Marten: two ghosts who died younger and at the moment are crossing blades… or feelings? Or is all of it only one lengthy night time’s dream?

The movie’s Korean forged consists of Yoo Hae-jin (the undertaker), Kim Okay-vin (White Marten), and Park Jeong-min (the swordsman).

“’Life Is However a Dream’ seemingly begins as a horror movie then slowly reveals itself to be a mixture of fantasy, martial arts, rom-com and musical. It’s a narrative that I’ve all the time needed to inform,” Park says in a behind-the-scenes clip launched alongside the movie. “A selected digital camera didn’t come to thoughts after I wrote it. What’s superb is that we are able to seize such a narrative into a movie with iPhone.”

The movie was shot on iPhone 13 Professional and iPhone 13 Professional Max. The staff employed a number of options of the newest fashions of Apple’s flagship telephones, together with Cinematic mode, macro video, Night time Mode, Extremely Vast digital camera, Telephoto digital camera, optical picture stabilization and ProRes video recording.

Park, whose credit embody “Oldboy,” “Thirst,” “The Handmaiden” and HBO’s upcoming restricted collection “The Sympathizer,” has expertise capturing on an iPhone. In 2011, he shot a brief movie, “Night time Fishing,” on an iPhone 4, which gained the Golden Bear for brief movie on the 61st Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition.

The movie was produced for Apple by TBWAMedia Arts Lab Seoul and options authentic music by Jang Younger-gyu. “Life Is However a Dream” will seem on broadcast, digital, social and out-of-home media, in addition to on apple.com, the Apple TV app and Apple Music.

Watch Park Chan-wook’s “Life Is However a Dream”: