No Form. 2012. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang Journey to the West. 2014. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang

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No Form. 2012. Taiwan. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang. With Lee Kang-Sheng. DCP. No dialogue. 20 min.

Journey to the West. 2014. Taiwan. Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang. With Lee Kang-Sheng, Denis Lavant. DCP. No dialogue. 56 min.

From 2012 to 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang dedicated multiple short films to the Walker series, in which Lee Kang-Sheng appears as the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, known for his journey to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Dressed in a saffron robe, the actor walks in slow motion, sometimes through crowded streets in urban cities around the world and sometimes in spaces that resemble art installations. In No Form, he is simultaneously in a staged all-white space and on the streets of Taipei. In Journey to the West, he walks in Marseille, joined by the French actor Denis Lavant. These short films form an entrancing set of conceptual works combining performance and documentary.

This film accompanies Tsai Ming-Liang: In Dialogue with Time, Memory, and Self.

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