WALKER Exhibition

In 2012, Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang directed WALKER. It features his favourite actor Lee Kang-sheng, dressed as a monk with his neck bent, walking in slow motion through the streets of Hong Kong. "Is Hong Kong moving too fast? Can we go any slower? How much slower?" asks the artist. This short film was the starting point for the Walker series, which by now comprises nine instalments. Each time, Tsai Ming-liang repeats the same gesture, in different contexts, from Hong Kong to Paris.

For its 25^th edition, the Black Movie Festival wanted to highlight the work of a filmmaker it has followed throughout his career, having already organised a retrospective of his work in 2008.

Combined with a programme of some fifteen Taiwanese films, including seven by Tsai Ming-liang, the WALKER exhibition is a European premiere. On the two floors of the Commun, the festival presents a selection of five films from the Walker series, together with an installation mixing footage of the performance The Monk from Tang Dynasty and a series of drawings and sketches by Tsai Ming-liang, all set in a scenography specially designed by the artist.

A masterclass from Tsai Ming-Liang will be held on Saturday 20 January at 17:30, at the Cinémas du Grütli, salle Simon.

With the support of the Centre culturel de Taïwan in Paris and the collaboration of the Centre de la photographie Genève.