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“Your Face” is screening at the 27th Art Film Fest Kosice
As many other film-makers that have been tagged as “auteur”, Tsai too divides the audience into two groups. And as with many long takes loving filmmakers, those of his fall into the ones who after falling asleep once, never return to any other of his films, and the rest. Let`s face it, Tsai`s style invites his audience to zone out everything outside the screen and it is not rare this invitation shifts into a dream. That is also why it...
“Your Face” is screening at the 27th Art Film Fest Kosice
As many other film-makers that have been tagged as “auteur”, Tsai too divides the audience into two groups. And as with many long takes loving filmmakers, those of his fall into the ones who after falling asleep once, never return to any other of his films, and the rest. Let`s face it, Tsai`s style invites his audience to zone out everything outside the screen and it is not rare this invitation shifts into a dream. That is also why it...
- 6/15/2019
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
The prevalence of social media has lent itself to a normalization of portraiture and the gaze, which no longer seems to appreciate the immense detail of the face that had once made the cinema a special medium. Photos on Facebook or Instagram feeds and the ways with which mainstream cultures celebrate beauty have stripped excitement from the specificities of appearance–to be scrolled through quickly and absorbed aimlessly without observation. Wrinkles and quirks, expressions and latent emotions represented are never contemplated, seemingly wasted on peripheral glances. Tsai Ming-liang, in his newest feature, Your Face, conducts a simple experiment in which moving images are primed on the intricacies of the face without distraction. Setting–often easier to connect with in a modern context–is erased almost entirely, as twelve faces are situated in front of a simple black backdrop.
The film serves as a semi-extension on Andy Warhol’s famous “Screen Tests,...
The film serves as a semi-extension on Andy Warhol’s famous “Screen Tests,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Jason Ooi
- The Film Stage
Renowned Taiwan-based filmmaker and Venice mainstay Tsai Ming-liang returns to the Lido this year with his latest, uncategorizable offering Your Face. Premiering out of competition in the non-fiction section, the 76-minute picture consists of unbroken close-up shots of 13 unidentified, seemingly unrelated people, including Mr. Tsai’s muse Lee Kang-sheng.
In signature Tsai style, the camera calmly, unquestioningly observes its subjects, some of which share stranger-than-fiction life stories, others appear deep in unknowable thought while still others simply doze off. Without the aid of title cards or voice-overs, the viewer is left to arrive at their own conclusion about what they’ve witnessed.
It’s our third encounter with Mr. Tsai on Lido following 2015 for the doc-narrative hybrid That Afternoon and 2017 for the Vr-trip The Deserted.
Could you talk about the initial idea for Your Face? What made you to want to do a film in this particular way?
When I was making the Vr film,...
In signature Tsai style, the camera calmly, unquestioningly observes its subjects, some of which share stranger-than-fiction life stories, others appear deep in unknowable thought while still others simply doze off. Without the aid of title cards or voice-overs, the viewer is left to arrive at their own conclusion about what they’ve witnessed.
It’s our third encounter with Mr. Tsai on Lido following 2015 for the doc-narrative hybrid That Afternoon and 2017 for the Vr-trip The Deserted.
Could you talk about the initial idea for Your Face? What made you to want to do a film in this particular way?
When I was making the Vr film,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
It’s not hard to observe the effects of aging on human faces, but what is the meaning behind those deep lines, pockets, wrinkles and discolorations? What stories do they tell or hide? What reality do they reflect? In Your Face (Ni de lian), Taiwanese filmmaker and conceptual artist Tsai Ming-liang advances another inexorable step on his cinematic journey, like the Buddhist monk walking in slow motion through Marseilles in his Journey to the West.
Minimalist in feeling and design, it is not a film for superficial or faint-hearted audiences, but primarily for Tsai’s festival followers. This round he eliminates ...
Minimalist in feeling and design, it is not a film for superficial or faint-hearted audiences, but primarily for Tsai’s festival followers. This round he eliminates ...
- 8/31/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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