The Colors of Dried - Grass
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A feature-length screenplay inspired by the life of painter Byun Shi-ji (1926–2013). In postwar Tokyo, a young Korean rises to the top prize of the Japanese art world. But in his homeland, the state records his friendships as an intelligence network and presses him to turn his painter's eye into a watcher's eye. He never hands that eye over. At fifty, he leaves everything and returns to Jeju, the island he left as a child. Among farmers, divers, and horsemen who know how to endure the wind, he learns to see again. On the morning after a typhoon, in grass that lay down all night and rose again, he finds a color no power can own — the color of dry grass. The screenplay opens like a dossier and closes like a painting: a quiet drama of surveillance, exile, and return, written in Korean, Japanese, and Jeju dialect (runtime approx. 135 min). The completed script and a companion novella are available. Life was exile, painting was a blessing.
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ArtShiji (Byun Shiji Foundation) is a non-profit cultural foundation dedicated to preserving and globally sharing the artistic legacy of the late South Korean master painter, Byun Shiji (1926–2013). The foundation honors his unique artistic world and the aesthetic value of "Climatic Modernism," a philosophy he deeply cultivated.
Operating across both Seoul and Jeju, the foundation focuses on the systematic digital archiving of his extensive works while developing international exhibition and publication projects. Through these endeavors, ArtShiji seeks to quietly convey his timeless artistic inspiration to the contemporary world.
Operating across both Seoul and Jeju, the foundation focuses on the systematic digital archiving of his extensive works while developing international exhibition and publication projects. Through these endeavors, ArtShiji seeks to quietly convey his timeless artistic inspiration to the contemporary world.