Edition 2024
79'
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2024
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Documentary
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
no dialogue
The Malaysian, Taiwan-trained director Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye, Dragon Inn; The Wayward Cloud) is one of the most original filmmakers of the past thirty years. With Abiding Nowhere, the tenth entry in the Walker series about a red-robed monk moving at a hypnotic slow pace, he completely sets aside narrative tendencies and invites the viewer to engage in contemplation in a cinema room. A unique experience, unlike anything else.
Next to his narrative features - though even these have become increasingly experimental as the years have gone by - Tsai Ming-liang has been building the meditative Walker series. These are films or art installations of varying length centred around a Buddhist monk moving extremely slow, clad in a kāṣāya, a saffron-coloured traditional robe. It always looks like the picture is in slow-motion, but in reality Lee Kang-shen (Tsai's fetish actor) moves extremely slowly. Abiding Nowhere is the tenth and perhaps last Walker film. This time, the walker glides past a series of iconic spots in Washington. These excursions are sporadically interspersed with footage of a young man's activities. Don't expect a story, but a contemplative film with no dialogue.
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Credits
Directors
Tsai Ming-liang
Cast
Anong Houngheuangsy, Lee Kang-sheng
Director of Photography
Chang Jhong-yuan
Editors
Chang Jhong-yuan
Producers
Claude Wang
Production studios
Homegreen Films
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Dialogue
no dialogue
Countries of production
United States of America, Taiwan
Year
2024
Filmography
Tsai Ming-liang
Rebels of the Neon God (1992), Vive L’Amour (1994), The River (1997), The Hole (1998), What Time is it There? (2001), A conversation With God (2001), The Skywalk is Gone (2002), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Moonlight on the River (2003), The Wayward Cloud (2005), I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006), It’s a Dream (2007), Madame Butterfly (2008), Face (2009), Hole 2011 (2011), Diamond Sutra (2012), Sleepwalk (2012), Walker (2012), No Form (2012), Journey to the West (2014), Walking on Water (2014), Afternoon (2015), Autumn Days (2015), No No Sleep (2015), The Deserted (VR, 2017), Sand Your Face, Light (2018), Days (2020), Wandering, The Night, The Moon and the Tree (2021), Where, Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-liang? (2022), Abiding Nowhere (2023)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
