Walking on Water

Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan / 2013 / Czech Premiere / 29 min.

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.