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Abiding Nowhere

Wu Suo Zhu

Indonesian Premiere

79 minutes | 2024 | Taiwan, USA | Documentary | 🔊 No Dialogue | English Sub. | 13+

Synopsis
Sinopsis

The walker with shaved head in a red robe wandering barefoot. Slowly but determinedly, he walks by the woods, the bizarre stones and the grassland. He also passes through the shadows of trees and the houses. He sets his foot in the train station, the church and the museum. The sun rises and goes down, the walker ambles in a city called Washington D.C. Following the paths of the walker or not, an outlander is also straying in the city.

The Walker series directed by acclaimed director Tsai Ming-Liang was initiated in 2011. For more than a decade, Tsai’s long-time cooperated actor and the leading cast Lee Kang-Sheng stars as the monk from Tang dynasty (Xuanzang) has wandered around the world. Marking the 10th film in the series, Abiding Nowhere returns to the core concept of corresponding the journey of Xuanzang pursuing Buddhism by gazing at the amble of the walker.

Schedule
Jadwal

XXI Studio 2 | Dec 6, 2024 | 18:15 WIB

Director's Biography

Biografi Sutradara

Tsai Ming-Liang

Tsai Ming-Liang

Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-Liang premiered his debut feature, Rebels of the Neon God, at the Berlinale in 1992. His sophomore film, Vive L’ amour (1994), won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival while The River (1996) won the Jury Award at Berlin, thus solidifying his status as a major filmmaker. All of his feature films so far have been selected by the top three film festivals of the world while five of them have won the FRIPESCI Award. In 2009, Face became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre Museum’s “Le Louvre s'offre aux cineastes”.

In recent years, Tsai has also received attention in the art world, having been invited to participate in various art exhibitions and festivals, and for putting forth such aesthetic ideas as the “Hand-sculpted Cinema” and “The removal of industrial processes from art making”. In 2012, he began his “Slow Walk” series and has since completed 10 films, screened at art festivals and galleries around the world. Back in Taiwan, he actively promoted the concept of “Art Museum as Cinema” and “The Author’s Intended Way of Viewing”, introducing new film-watching modes as a way to balance the overly commercialized film market.

Tsai is the most sensual, sensitive and somber filmmaker of this generation. He 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 films often absent of narrative and dialogue and composed of slow and long takes, present life in its truest form, showing us the helplessness of humans, their desire, emptiness and loneliness. His lens, long fixated on Lee Kang-sheng, is in fact, fixated on life itself.

Cast & Crew

Kru & Pemain

Production Company Homegreen Films

Producer Claude Wang

Scriptwriter Tsai Ming-Liang

Cinematographer Chang Jhong-Yuan

Editor Chang Jhong-Yuan

Main Cast Lee Kang-Sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy

Notable Achievement

Filmography

  • Abiding Nowhere, Xining Public Housing (2024)
  • Yilan, Strolling Around (2023)
  • Where, Where do you stand, Tsai Ming-Liang? (2022) 
  • Wandering, The Moon and the Tree, The Night (2021)
  • Days (2020)
  • Light (2019)
  • Your Face, Sand (2018) 
  • The Deserted (2017) 
  • Afternoon, Autumn Days, No No Sleep (2015)
  • Journey to the West (2014)
  • Walking on Water (2013)
  • Stray Dogs (2013)
  • Diamond Sutra, Sleepwalk, Walker, No Form (2012)
  • Hole (2011)
  • Face (2009)
  • Madama Butterfly (2008)
  • It’s a Dream (2007)
  • I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
  • The Wayward Cloud (2005)
  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
  • Moonlight on the River (2003) 
  • The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)
  • What Time is It There? (2001)
  • A conversation With God (2001)
  • The Hole (1998) 
  • The River (1997)
  • Vive L’ amour (1994)
  • Rebels of the Neon God (1992)

Contact

kumo924097@gmail.com (Claude Wang)