synopsis
In 2011, the Taiwanese artist presented his play
Only You, in which the character of the medieval Buddhist monk Xuanzang slowly walks across the stage for half an hour. This scene inspired him to shoot short films that contrast the slowness of walking with the speed of the surrounding events. The first of these, No Form, was shot on the streets of Taipei and revels in the duality of time and space, humorously punctuated by Nina Simone's song
Feeling Good.
biography
Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) is from Malaysia and lives and works in Taiwan. Together with Ang Lee and Hou Hsiao-hsien, he is a leading representative of Taiwanese New Wave cinema. His work bears the hallmarks of slow cinema, conceptual art, and performance art, and deals with themes of loneliness, time, and memory. His second feature film,
Vive L'Amour (1994), won the Golden Lion at Venice, while
The River (1997) won the Golden Bear at Berlinale, where
The Wayward Cloud (2005) also competed.
film details
| director: | Tsai Ming-Liang |
| executive producer: | Vincent Wang |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2025 |
| section: | Special Event |
| language: | No Dialogue |
| subtitles: | No Subtitles |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Tsai Ming-Liang |
| original title: | 無色 |
| country: | Taiwan |
| year: | 2012 |
| running time: | 20 min. |
