Can we see time if we slow it down? The concept of “mindfulness” became synonymous with human happiness only recently, while Tsai Ming-liang has been leading us towards a closer awareness of the world for years. The tenth in his series of films about a Buddhist monk walking extremely slowly across rural and urban landscapes, is set in Washington, DC. On this occasion, the figure of a second man moves through similar locations. The two solitary journeys might conceivably intersect yet, to attain solidarity, the mere knowledge of a parallel existence would surely also suffice… A well-rounded film meditation, in which the Taiwanese master of radically slow cinema heightens the senses so as to enrich and colour our upcoming festival days.
Martin Horyna
79 min / Color, DCP
Director Tsai Ming-liang
/ Dir. of Photography Chang Jhong-yuan
/ Sound Lin Zi-xiang
/ Editor Chang Jhong-yuan
/ Producer Claude Wang
/ Production Homegreen Films
/ Coproduction Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation
/ Cast Lee Kang-sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy
/ Sales Homegreen Films Co.
Tsai Ming-liang (1957, Kuching, Malaysia). Selected filmography: Rebels of the Neon God (Qing shao nian nuo zha, 1992), The River (He liu, 1996), Face (Visage, 2009), Stray Dogs (Jiao you, 2013), Journey to the West (Xi you, 2014), Days (Rizi, 2020), The Night (Liang ye bu neng lung, 2021, short doc.), Abiding Nowhere (Wu Suo Zhu, 2024).
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