synopsis
The third walking film, commissioned by the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition, transforms both the human figure and kitchen appliances into an art installation. The sound of rice cooking, which accompanies the footsteps of a monk in a red hood, is a ghostly reminiscence of the breath of the director's dying mother, bringing together the physicality of the living and the dead.
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: | Tsai Ming-Liang |
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: | 金剛經 |
| country: | Taiwan |
| year: | 2012 |
| running time: | 20 min. |
