7 Movies in One Film: Cohabitation of Film Masters

What will come out if world-widely renowned film directors are asked to make a 10-minute running time motion picture, giving 100% discretion to them in selecting the subjects of their movies?

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet and Ten Minutes Older: The Cello offer an opportunity to the movie-goers to experience such. The two, combined together in two compilation films, show the genius works of 15 directors with the English documentary director Nicholas McLeantok sponsored.

In the first series, Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, are works of 7 prominent directors such as Wim Wenders (Germany), Spike Lee (USA) and Chen Kaige (China).

Even tough each of the work runs only 10 minutes, the ten minutes is enough to represent the personality of each director. In Int. Trailer. Night, for example, Jim Jarmusch`s characteristics are well appreciated through, for example, the restrained use of camera moves and his interest in depicting the difficulties in communication between isolated people as a gloomy desolate background.

Like the playing of a trumpet linking each film, the first series Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet feels like a movie making out an exotic sketch of time created by the compilation

Hee-Kyung Kim susanna@donga.com