Tsai Ming Liang

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness By Song Hwee Lim
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0824836847 | PDF | 5 MB

Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleep, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang"
English | ISBN: 1517913187 | 2022 | 234 pages | EPUB | 954 KB

The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

Rebels of the Neon God (1994)
Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a young hoodlum, and their relationship is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.

Your Face (2018)
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue.

The Hole (1999)
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.

Afternoon (2015)
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelling and goes beyond conversation on cinema. Tsai Ming-Liang and his actor Lee Kang-sheng confess and put on stage a pièce in which attention and slowness are in tune with the rhythm of memory. The unveiling of Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking: from Stray Dogs to the most intimate notes of the director-actor relationship.

Jean Ma, "Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 9888028057 | PDF | pages: 212 | 5.8 mb

Jean Ma, "At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators"
English | ISBN: 0520384512 | 2022 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 35 MB