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Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-liang Talks Creative Freedom, TikTok and Box Office Disasters: ‘In Future, None of My Films Will Have a Script’
Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang struggles with box office, scripts and pacing, but drew the crowds to his Berlin Masterclass.
“Abiding Nowhere,” which premieres on Monday in the Encounters section and consists of lonely wanderings through Washington DC by a barefoot monk, is, by Tsai’s own admission, “not a normal film.” Deploying exceptionally long-takes and minimal story, Tsai finds the museum-installation analogy to be fitting. The theme of attention span came up again, when Tsai admitted to regularly watching short videos on TikTok.
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