Tsai Ming-iang

Tsai Ming-iang
Film director
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

> 2006, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan) - 82 min, Taiwan, France, Austria.
Minimalist and sensually charged investigation of the sultry relationship between a homeless Chinese, an illegal worker from Bangladesh and a waitress from Kuala Lumpur.



> 2003, Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bu jian bu san) - 82 min, Taiwan.
Everyone tries to drive out the loneliness - from the visitors to the box office clerk - in nostalgic cinephile film about the last day in the life of a cinema. King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn can be seen once more.


> 2002, The Skywalk is Gone (Tien chao bu jien le) - 23 min, Taiwan, France.

> 2001, Digital Short Films (In Public, by Jia Zhang-Ke / Digitopia, by John Akomfrah / A Conversation with God, by Tsai Ming-liang) 2002 3x30 min (South Korea)
In these three thirty-minute films, three internationally renowned directors explore the possibilities of digital video. Two living urban portraits and a story about digital love that won't turn analogue.

The Korean Jeonju Film Festival commissioned three film-makers to make a film and only placed two restrictions on them: the length should be no more than thirty minutes and they had to film with a digital videocamera. Despite the very different results, all three films include moments in which the future of digital film becomes tangible. Digitopia by John Akomfrah is about a man who is torn back and forth between the digital and analogue world. He is desperately seeking love and tries to turn his digital relationship into a real relationship. The subject of his affections, a prostitute, is however less than enthusiastic.
For In Public, Jia spent 45 days filming public places in the former mining town of Datung. The influence of capitalism on the town is clear: an old bus is now a restaurant, a railway station has suddenly been turned into a disco. Datung has become a town without a function, but despite the depression, the inhabitants remain optimistic.
A Conversation with God is the most elusive of the three. Here Tsai Ming-liang searches for God, in a collage of lively images from the big city. We see a medium in trance, a river bank strewn with dead fish and a striptease. An exciting contemporary document.


> 1998, Dong (Hole) - 95 min, Taiwan.

> 1997, The River (He liu) - 115 min, Taiwan.
Occasionally acid, penetrating and slightly controversial portrait of a malfunctioning family in Taipei, by the maker of Vive l'Amour won the Silver Bear in Berlin. With Lee Kang-sheng.


> 1995, Wo xin ren shih de peng yo (My New Friends) - 53 min, Taiwan.

> 1994, Aiqing Wansui (Vive l'amour) - 119 min, Taiwan.
An uninhabited apartment is used by three young people. Loneliness and alienation. Golden Lion at Venice. By the maker of Rebels of the Neon God.


> 1993, All corners of the world (Haijiao tianya - 50 min, Taiwan.

> 1993, Boys (Xiao hai) - 50 min, Taiwan.

> 1992, Rebels of the neon god (Ching shao nien na cha) - 106 min, Taiwan.
Stunning début about lonely and bored young people in Taipei.

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