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Past Present
Saw Tiong Guan
Malaysia 2013
76 min
V'14

PAST PRESENT is an exploration of Tsai Ming-Liang’s journey in film, both as a filmgoer and a filmmaker, tracing his philosophy as a director to his childhood experience growing up in Kuching, Malaysia, and the importance of moving to Taiwan in the 70’s. In this film, Tsai revisits the old cinemas that he used to frequent with his grandparents and tells the story of how he would watch two films every evening with them. With a strong sense of loss, Tsai rediscovers his past while evaluating the present in which he described as a ‘throwaway era’ where people are no longer able to value things from the past. Tsai’s colleagues, from Ang Lee to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and his constant collaborators like Lee Kang-sheng and Chen Shiang-chyi, discuss the uniqueness of his work and him as a person, in search for ever greater freedom and artistry.

In the presence of Saw Tiong Guan.

With NO FORM

Credits
  • Khoo Eng Yow
  • Yang Wei Ang
  • Lim Chee Yong
  • Kok Kai Foong
  • Tsai Ming-liang
  • Ang Lee
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Lee Kang-sheng
  • Chen Shiang-chyi
  • Wang Shaudi
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien
Saw Tiong Guan und Piyasak Vitayaburananon

Saw Tiong Guan

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