The Hole
Ming-Liang Tsai / TW, FR, 1998 / 95 min.
Taipei, the day after the turn of the millennium. It’s raining incessantly and a mysterious virus grips the city. A man and a woman, downstairs and upstairs neighbours, are in their apartment building in the quarantine zone.
The man observes the woman through a hole in the floor. That”s basically all there is to the film, yet it won the FIPRESCI International Film Critics Prize.
Eye screens all films by the Taiwanese filmmaker to accompany Tsai”s VR project The Deserted.
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Director
Ming-Liang Tsai
Production year
1998
Country
TW, FR
Original title
Dong
Length
95 min.
Language
Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Tsai Ming-liang
Eye Filmmuseum presents a retrospective of all of the Taiwanese master’s films to accompany Tsai Ming-liang’s first VR production The Deserted, from Rebels of the Neon God (1992) to Your Face (2018).
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