Sungman Pyun
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Weehawken New Jersey USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Sungman was born in Seoul, Korea. He received a diploma in Industrial Design from Kyung Won College in Korea. This year he received a B.F.A. with honors in Film, Animation and Video from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, U.S.A. Before he studied Film, Animation, and Video in the United States, he worked for a graphic design company as a illustrator in Vancouver, Canada. He resides in Burbank, CA, USA and is working on his next film and pursuing a career in motion picture industry. Filmography/Awards Info: Filmography 2003 Rhode Island School of Design Film Festival, Providence RI 2002 'Harmony of spheres' (5min 4sec) - digital experimental animation -Kinetic movement with quartette music. 'Cryptic Area' (based on the play 'M. Butterfly') (14min) - digital film -A man lives in his fantasy, but reality. 'Accident' (4min) - digital film -A man accidentally finds a car thief trying to steal a car at night. 2001 'A Piece of Mind' (based on a true story) (4min) - digital film -alienation of an individual in society 'Odyssey' (based on Homer's 'Odyssey') (53sec) - experimental drawn animation (16mm) -A fisherman has a strange day on a sea. 'Goober' (1min) - puppet animation (16 mm) -Goober, adopted to native Indian family, accidentally meets his brother in the forest. 'Bolex 10' (2min) - experimental film (16mm) -mystery story about man, film and suicide. 2000 'City of Angel' (30sec) - puppet animation (16mm) -Only a kid could be the one who recognizes the angel on the street. 'Fear' (1min) - digital film -Portrait of water. A man caught in the circle of fear. 'Pentimento' is a non-narrative, experimental animation/ visual poetry. The process of making this film was just like making an abstract painting or sculpture. With empty mind after meditation, I started painting and later took pictures of it. I had no purpose or any logic in this process, but a desire to find images that exists in my subconscious. Those vague images, which I believe, affect my consciousness of everyday life. I believed I can trace those images which should be remaining in somewhere my painting on texture or at a portion of figures. The images I got in the images after doing several repetitions, I could remember where some of those images originally from. They were mostly from photos, drawings in books, scenes I saw briefly. Unconsciously, they have stuck into my memory system making me believe it is a new image I created or imagined. By this little experiment, I realized that sometimes there are very brief moments which influence one's perception on new incidents or objects unconsciously. It happens not by one's will, but by each person's perception already made since childhood or even before that time. As we all know one's perception on things evolves and he/she forgets what the prior perception on the same thing was. Adults don't understand the way of children think anymore. Or, is it started before he/she was born. Well, I believe it is very possible as one's gene is unique and shows different personality and talents. Then, our subconscious could have started to be recorded since the creation of human being. For the Software I used were Adobe Photoshop 7.0, after effect 5.5, premiere 6.0. For most scenes I developed my own techniques since the film was developed in the process of developing the image. For the woman/angel's face, I took the picture of the steam of boiling water with a Digital Camera and used it to paint the clouds/face of woman. The new 'clone-stamp tool' in Photoshop 7.0 allowed me to do it. Although the tool is not designed for such tasks I can tell, Photoshop was the only software which made me possible to paint such image. I wish Adobe develops the program more in that direction of CG painting. I composed and animated them in After Effect and edited it Premier. It was all possible where the After Effect and Photoshop is closely interrelated for modification. This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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