Cinema
Where
11 Dec 2022
The event is over
"Anong hums songs from his hometown in an unknown foreign city.
Perhaps he's looking for something,
Or waiting for someone.
He comes across the walker.
The meeting is like a dream.
He wakes up with an impression of déjà-vu.
Filming the walker is like sketching outdoors.
The walker is in Paris, and so is Anong.
Their paths cross, nothing else happens.
The Centre Pompidou wanted to show all the Walker Films.
That's the reason I decided to film this famous museum of contemporary art
And to include it in the ninth opus in the series.
To support memory."
Tsai Ming-Liang
Tsai Ming-Liang, Where. 2022, 91 min, video
Preceded by:
Tsai Ming-Liang, What stage are you at now, Tsai Ming-Liang? Taiwan-France, 2022, original, 21 min, video, colour, French version
The film is also presented in the exhibition space until 2 December.
" Où en êtes-vous ?" (What stage are you at?) is a collection introduced by the Centre Pompidou which, since 2014, has systematically commissioned each guest filmmaker to make a free-form homemade film with which they respond to this question that is both retrospective and introspective and turned toward the figure, their desires, their projects. To date, the collection comprises more than twenty films.
"For health reasons,
Kang-Sheng and I have moved to the mountains.
We have no neighbours.
Our house is surrounded by dilapidated properties.
I love these abandoned houses.
I often go there.
I think they're magnificent.
I said to Kang-Sheng:
We no longer need to travel to make films.
I'm going to film everything here.
I got some old chairs and some of my paintings
and I placed them in these abandoned houses.
That's how the film was made."
Tsai Ming-Liang
When
3pm - 4:30pm
Where
Tsai Ming-Liang, Where
© Claude Wang - Homegreen Films, 2022