Tsai Ming-Liang
Exposition et rétrospective
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Detailed program available on the centrepompidou.fr website and festival-automne.com in September
This event is organised by les Cinémas du Département culture et création du Centre Pompidou with the Festival d’Automne à Paris, and is supported by the Centre Culturel de Taïwan à Paris
For reasons related to the health crisis, the complete retrospective of Tsai Ming-Liang's films, in the presence of the filmmaker and actor Lee Kang-Sheng, as well as all the events linked to it, are postponed to 2022 at the Centre Pompidou.
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Since first coming into recognition in the mid-1990’s with his début film Rebels of the Neon God, Tsai Ming Liang has been at the forefront of Taiwan’s post new-wave cinema. The filmmaker now presents a unique exhibition together with the screening of his entire body of films at the Centre Pompidou.
In 2003, Tsai Ming-Liang gave us his nostalgic and passionate ode to the power of cinema, the unforgettable Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Over the course of eleven feature films to date, in addition to numerous short films and films for the television, each of which mixes a form of aesthetic asceticism with formal investigations, and occasional incursions into genre, the Taiwanese filmmaker’s depiction of his native island is like that of a hallucinatory land. For almost the last thirty years, he has been utilizing the mute-like power of his favourite actor, Lee Kang-Shen, and recounting, from The Hole, in 1998, to The Wayward Cloud, in 2005, via Stray Dogs, in 2013, the incommunicability between man and desire which, alone, permits an escape from it. With the completion of Days, an entry in the last Berlinale, the filmmaker presents his entire body of films as well as a major, unique exhibition. In it, he develops his obsessions and ongoing research, and gives us the opportunity to see the remarkable ninth opus in the Walker Films series, shot at the Centre Pompidou in continuation of the visual arts-based work that he began almost ten years ago. The result is an immersive experience into matter of different kinds, from film to crumpled-up paper.
In the same place
Mathilde Monnier Territoires
In Territoires, Mathilde Monnier will be taking over the galleries of the Centre Pompidou during the course of a weekend in order to bring us a piece that deals with memory and circulation, "a collection of gestures from her work over the past thirty years". In doing so, the choreographer sets up the possibility of playing out memory in the present, from now onwards, or by means of anticipation.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Night Particles
The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Rétrospective
Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents the complete retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou. It consists of his eight feature films, thirty or so short (and rare) films, various collective works, and two feature films produced by him.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul A Conversation with the Sun (VR)
A Conversation with the Sun (VR), the Thai filmmaker's second foray into the realm of performance, uses virtual reality to set up the conditions for a collective dream.
Ligia Lewis Still Not Still
In Still Not Still, choreographer Ligia Lewis pursues her exploration into the silences and shadows of history. In this piece, the performers play out a score over and over again, the burlesque dimension of which makes it all the more tragic.
Forced Entertainment Signal to Noise
Over its forty years of existence, with Tim Etchells at the helm, the company has never stopped reinventing itself. And it continues to do so. Amidst an oscillating form of virtual reality, six performers find themselves deprived of their voices and their entire beings. The whole thing goes beyond all understanding... Welcome to this new world.
Sébastien Kheroufi Par les villages
Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.