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Tsai Ming-liang

Taiwan

b. 1957, Kuching, Malaysia
Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan

Tsai Ming-Liang sees the human body as a mysterious, malleable, and vulgar machine, and seeks to strip naked the sensory functions of the human body through his work. His lens, long fixated on Lee Kang-sheng, is in fact, fixated on life itself. In recent years, Tsai has been invited to participate in various art exhibitions and festivals, proposing aesthetic ideas including “hand-sculpted cinema” and “the removal of industrial processes from art making.” In 2012, he began his Slow Walk series, which now has 10 films. His debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God, premiered at the Berlinale in 1992. His sophomore film, Vive L’Amour (1994), won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while The River (1996) won the Jury Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

2002年《不見》工作照，林盟山攝影