Tsai Ming-Liang, (Paperback)

<p><b>The first in-depth study of filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's sensual and solitary universe.</b></p><p>Acclaimed Taiwan-based filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang is renowned for creating some of the most nihilistic and erotic films of the 1990s. His films often use water in its multiple capacities--cleansing, raining, nourishing, flooding--to symbolize his character's emotions. Depicting the human body as a mysterious, malleable machine consuming and excreting on its own volition, he turns bodily functions into metaphors for loneliness, desire, decay, and escape. His obsessive and isolated characters give his films a bleak outlook, but they also embody a wry sense of absurdist humor. </p><p>Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang (born 1957) has directed a dozen full-length films, inlcluding <i>Rebels of Neon God</i>, <i>Vive l'Amour</i> (Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 1994), <i>The River</i> (Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, 1997), <i>The Hole</i>, <i>The Wayward Cloud</i>, <i>Face</i> and <i>Stray Dogs</i> (Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 2013). In 2013, Tsai was voted by UK newspaper <i>The Guardian</i> as number 18 of the 40 best directors in the world.</p>

• Tsai Ming-Liang, (Paperback)
• Author: Tsai Ming-Liang
• ISBN: 9782906571907
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 1999-10-02
• Page Count: 128