Creative Taiwan
THE DESERTED
Jia Zai Lanre Si
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan
2017, 55'
Genre
Recommended Age
All ages
VO. Chinese
With
Lee Kang-sheng
With the support of the Taiwanese Cultural Centre in Paris and the Geneva Office of the Taipei Cultural and Economic Delegation
Sick and isolated in the mountains, Hsiao-Kang is visited by his late mother and a mysterious ghostly neighbor. A contemplative virtual reality story about loneliness and loss.
Sick and isolated in the mountains, Hsiao-Kang is visited by his late mother and a mysterious ghostly neighbor. A contemplative virtual reality story about loneliness and loss.
In an abandoned house deep in the mountains, Hsiao-Kang is recovering from a mysterious illness. His deceased mother visits him and cooks for him, but he cannot taste her food. A ghostly woman lives nearby, yet she, too, is unable to enter his life. Only a fish becomes his confidant. With The Deserted, Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang brings his contemplative cinema into virtual reality for the first time. Presented in competition at Venice VR in 2017, this 55-minute work weaves a ghostly, silent narrative about loneliness, absence, and the connections between the living and the departed.
Mathieu Gayet
Mathieu Gayet
Creation
Tsai Ming-liang
Screenplay
Wang Yun-Lin, Tsai Ming-liang
Production
Homegreen Films
With
Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Yin Shin, Lu Yi-ching
World sales
HTC Vive Originals
Booking for the program
PARCOURS IMMERSIF
PARCOURS IMMERSIF
This work is part of a program composed of several works.
From 30 Oct. to 8 November
Maison communale de Plainpalais - Espace Immersif
