Tsai Ming-liang: Walker series
At the new edition of Film Fest Gent, S.M.A.K. and the film festival together turn their attention to the work of celebrated Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang with the screening of the Walker series, a series of ten films the director made between 2012 and 2023.
The Walker series starts from Tsai Ming-liang's fascination with Xuanzang, the great Tang dynasty monk who inspired the 16th-century Chinese literary classic Journey to the West. Each of the films shows a monk in an impressive pose with bare feet, shaved head and dressed in a red robe. Extremely slowly, he wanders through metropolises or specific locations such as the director's birthplace.
With this poetic and minimalist response to the feverish contemporary world, the filmmaker also depicts his constant search for truth. He himself claims to have experienced the highest degree of artistic freedom when he made the Walker series, because the films are neither about narrative nor directly about meanings. 鈥業t's painting鈥�.
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At the new edition of Film Fest Gent, S.M.A.K. and the film festival together turn their attention to the work of celebrated Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang with the screening of the Walker series, a series of ten films the director made between 2012 and 2023.
The Walker series starts from Tsai Ming-liang's fascination with Xuanzang, the great Tang dynasty monk who inspired the 16th-century Chinese literary classic Journey to the West. Each of the films shows a monk in an impressive pose with bare feet, shaved head and dressed in a red robe. Extremely slowly, he wanders through metropolises or specific locations such as the director's birthplace.
With this poetic and minimalist response to the feverish contemporary world, the filmmaker also depicts his constant search for truth. He himself claims to have experienced the highest degree of artistic freedom when he made the Walker series, because the films are neither about narrative nor directly about meanings. 鈥業t's painting鈥�.
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