Movie: No Form - Abiding Nowhere

NO FORM, 2012, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 20 Mins, Homegreen Films, Taiwan

Taipei.

Hsiao Kang walks past the Ay-Chung Rice-Flour Noodle shop,

past Shilin Night Market,

and into a white space.

We don’t know where he’s from

or where he’s going.

This is a cellphone ad where the product doesn’t even appear.

After the film premiered in Macau,

the product was pulled before it even hit the shelves.

— Tsai Ming-liang

ABIDING NOWHERE, 2024, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 79 Mins, Smithsonian Institution, Taiwan/USA

The tenth Walker film

takes place in Washington DC.

Two lonely souls on separate journeys,

sometimes crossing paths

but never once meeting.

Nothing happens between them.

There is no story.

Their walking journeys are

like a meditative prayer of heart and soul.

— Tsai Ming-liang

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