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秋日 (Autumn Days) 2015

Against a black screen, a reflective conversation plays out between Tsai Ming-liang and Nogami Teruyo – long-time assistant and script supervisor for Akira Kurosawa – about poetry, films, and Nogami’s life. At the close of the conversation, Lee Kang-sheng joins Teruyo in a wordless tableau beneath gently falling autumnal leaves.

24 minutes | Ages 12+

行在水上 (Walking on Water) 2013

Walking on Water, the fifth film in the ‘Walker’ series, was prompted by an invitation by the Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to contribute to the anthology film Letters from the South 2013, reflecting on the Chinese diaspora. For this project, the pilgrimage to India by Xuanzang, the 7th Century Chinese Buddhist monk who inspired the ‘Walker’ series, is brought into conversation with Tsai Ming-liang’s own identity as a Malaysian with Chinese heritage.

Returning to his childhood home in Kuching, where he was raised by his grandparents in an apartment block known as “7-storeys”, Tsai films Lee Kang-sheng moving hypnotically slowly around the building complex. A series of lingering camera shots document the current residents, including a woman, now a grandmother, who cared for Tsai when he was a child.

29 minutes | All Ages