Taipei Cultural Center in New York is delighted to announce that the internationally acclaimed auteur Tsai Ming-liang’s latest feature Afternoon will be presented at the new arthouse cinema Metrograph on April 1while his ever astonishing Goodbye, Dragon Inn will be showed at the Museum of the Moving Image on April 2.
For the past twenty-five years, Tsai Ming-liang has distinguished himself as one of the most tirelessly brilliant filmmakers in the world with such beautifully crafted films about love, sex, and urban alienation. Rarely does this great auteur appear onscreen himself and open up about his creative methods, so the new Afternoon, a film in four static shots in which the director sits with his subtly expressive muse Lee Kang-sheng in a ramshackle rural house to discuss all manner of things professional and very personal, is a highly anticipated work.
Meanwhile, as a companion on-screen program to the exhibition “The Hollywood Classics behind Walkers & Dragon Inn & Goodbye, Dragon Inn,” exploring the porous relationship between fine-art and gallery culture and filmmaking, Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn will be showcased at the Museum of the Moving Image on April 2.
Afternoon
2015 / 137min / DCP
Friday, April 1 at 5:30 p.m. at Metrograph（7 Ludlow Street, New York）
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
2003 / 82 min / 35mm
Saturday, April 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image（36-01 35 Ave, Astoria）