郊遊 (Stray Dogs) 2013 Ages 15+
When
7.15 pm, Fri 22 Nov 2024 (137 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Subtitled
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
A homeless man (Lee Kang-sheng) and his two young children scrape by on the fringes of Taipei. With his job holding an advertising sign only barely funding his drinking habit, the family sleep rough in a makeshift shelter. One day, the children meet a woman at a grocery store who alters the path of all of their lives.
Stray Dogs was the first feature that Tsai shot with digital cameras. He used the new technology to push the formal bounds of his filmmaking to new lengths. Inspired by his concurrent practice making work for galleries and no longer constrained by the limits of analogue equipment, he extended his shots to previously infeasible times, expanding the hypnotic minimalism of his style. The result is one of Tsai's most remarkable, fully realised visions — a film of tremendous audio and visual strength, and intense emotional power. It is a film that contains both bathos and pathos; like few other artists, Tsai captures the complexity and contradictions of human nature in a completely inimitable way.
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Tsai Ming-liang
- Script: Song Peng Fei, Tsai Ming-liang, Tung Cheng Yu
- Cinematographers: Liao Pen-jung, Sung Wen Zhong
- Editor: Lei Chen-ching
- Cast: Lee Kang-sheng, Lu Yi-ching, Chen Shiang-chyi
- Print Source: Homegreen Films
- Rights: Homegreen Films
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 137 minutes
- Countries: Taiwan, France
- Language: Mandarin
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: Digital
- Screening Format: DCP