YOUR FACE (+ LIGHT)
The film will screen with Tsai’s 2018 short Light, and the screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng.
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
76 minutes. Taiwan. 2018. Subtitled. Colour. D-Cinema.
Festivals: Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival 2018; Tallin Black Nights Film Festival 2018; Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018; New York Film Festival 2018
Our esteemed Festival guest, Tsai Ming-Liang’s latest film is an exquisite contemplative piece. After Tsai’s The Deserted (2017) a VR work with no traditional narrative structure, and no close-ups, he chose to make this new work exclusively with close-ups. Searching the streets of Taipei for faces to film, Tsai writes ‘with each face I created a cinematic composition’. After a chance meeting with Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, and having pieced together the close-ups, he asked Sakamoto to take a look. Tsai continues… ‘A month later, he sent me some audio files saying that I could use them in any way I wished. I was thrilled by it. It felt like an adventure. After more than twenty years, I finally made a film with a musical score.’
LIGHT
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
18 minutes. Taiwan. 2018. Subtitled. Colour. D-Cinema.
Screening with Your Face, Light captures natural light streaming through the spaces of Zhongshan Hall, where Your Face was filmed.
