synopsis
The fifth walking film was created as part of the film anthology
Letters from the South, compiled by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui. In it, Tsai Ming-liang returns to his native Kuching by way of a monk in a red hood. The walls of the house where he grew up are saturated with a familiar past and the foreign lives of its present inhabitants.
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 |
| producer: | Leonard Tee |
| photography: | Liao Pen-Jung |
| editing: | Yim Wai-Lup |
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: | 行在水上 |
| country: | Taiwan |
| year: | 2013 |
| running time: | 29 min. |
