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Opening night
Opening, performance and preview
25 Nov 2022
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Tsai Ming-Liang, the great Taiwanese filmmaker, presents the exhibition and retrospective dedicated to him by the Centre Pompidou until 2 January 2023.
Accompanied by his actors, Lee Kang-Sheng and Anong Houngheuangsy, the filmmaker offers a monumental work in the form of a live public performance in the Forum. The inauguration continues on Level -1, in the heart of the exhibition entitled "A Quest", presenting the anthology of the Walker Films, and the 9th original opus in the series, Where, filmed last June at the Centre Pompidou and projected for the first time. To close the evening, Tsai Ming-Liang presents his new original feature film, Days, due to be released on November 30.
8.00 pm – Cinema 1 – Preview in the presence of the filmmaker and actors
Tsai Ming-Liang, Days. Taiwan, 2020, 127 min, DCP, colour, without dialogues
With Lee Kang-Sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy
Berlinale 2020 – competition
Hsiao-Kang lives alone in a large house. Through a glass façade, he watches the tops of the trees being buffeted by wind and rain. For years he has suffered from a strange, scarcely bearable ailment that grips his whole body. Non lives in Bangkok in a small apartment, methodically preparing the traditional dishes of his native village. When Hsiao-Kang meets Non in a hotel room, the two men share their loneliness.
"What is a shot? It is the time it takes an image to record a gesture, to register a print of a motif, to reveal a meaning. This is the whole phenomenological and glaring beauty of Tsai Ming-Liang's cinema, confronting us with the mute insistence of orphan presences and disconnected spaces, in which movement is wrestled from immobility (static shots at the heart of his lexicon) and meaning from contact with the greatest insignificance (Days, is these lost hours and days, these ordinary activities in blind succession until the encounter takes place)." Mathieu Macheret, Cahiers du cinéma, n° 768, September 2020
When
6:30pm - 10:30pm
Where
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