Hong Sangsoo has directed 27 features in 26 years—an almost unheard-of pace in contemporary cinema. At a recent talk at Film at Lincoln Center, Hong spoke about his pragmatic approach to filmmaking—and why he would rather die than do something fake.
So they don’t watch any films in your class?
Two young actors you’ve worked with recently, Shin Seok-ho and Park Mi-so, are former students. They’re the leads in “.” I read an interview where Shin Seok-ho said he thought he was a crew member until you introduced him to the cast as an actor. And he didn’t realize until after the shoot ended that he was the lead actor.
Your parents had a film-production company. I’m wondering if getting into film was something that you thought about at an early age. You didn’t study film to begin with. After studying film in Korea, you decided to study in the U.S.—at the California College of Arts and Crafts and then at the Art Institute of Chicago, which are both art schools that have film departments and are interdisciplinary in their approach. How did you end up in the Bay Area and then in Chicago?
I like that you identify this as the defining quality, because I find it in your work, this balance between the concrete and the abstract. Are there filmmakers who you feel achieve that? One of the most important elements of my being abroad was that, for the first time, I felt comfortable. Since I was quite young, I didn’t feel comfortable with many things. That’s why I started drinking heavily and smoking heavily and all kinds of crazy stuff when I was very young. In California, it was green grass all around, very nice weather. It was so nice. I think that’s the biggest thing for me—just being away, feeling kind of free, even though inside you’re not free, as you know.
There are so many words that trap us. They are like very small, tiny dots, and, if you place them on the center of your eyes, in a few seconds, the whole universe is in that dot. You lose the senses—that’s why we become so stupid so soon. It’s all just this concept. It’s small dots sticking to your eyes. Millions of dots waiting to crawl onto your eyes.In the middle of making a film, or sometimes in the beginning, I become conscious of structure. Structure is an important aspect to look at.
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