Cinema
Your Face
02 Jan 2023
The event is over
Your Face is made up of thirteen portraits of citizens of Taipei. Some remain silent, others begin to recount the story of their lives, confessions and even a short melody.
"Each member of the cast, anonymous people encountered in the streets of Taipei (with the exception of Lee Kang-Sheng, Tsai Ming-Liang's favourite actor), is presented in a single static shot without any interruptions. Physical presences as real as they are ghostly, as underscored by the blank final shot and the undulating, sonorous score by Ryuichi Sakamoto. A lesson in film of almost daring simplicity, in which the face speaks to us, banishing the "talking heads" of many television documentaries." Aisha Rahim, catalogue of the Festival des Trois Continents, 40th edition
Tsai Ming-Liang, Your Face. Taiwan, 2018, 77 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles
Preceded by:
Tsai Ming-Liang, Light. Taiwan, 2019, 17 min, DCP, colour, without dialogues
Light captures the changes in the natural light shining through the Zhongshan Hall in Taipei. This place, the setting of the film Your Face, is of real national importance because it is here that Japanese forces officially surrendered at the end of World War II, putting an end to fifty-one years of occupation in Taiwan.
When
8pm - 9:45pm
Where
© Chang Jhong Yuan