The Skywalk is Gone

  • 23'
  • Taiwan
  • 2002
The film looks like an exercise in casualness. An exercise in narrating as if there is no narration. The (candid) camera follows a woman who wants to cross a busy road. Another woman, with a heavy suitcase, is trying to do the same thing. Before the two have reached the other side, this subtle fictional element seems to have been entirely assimilated into a documentary observation. In the end, the fiction re-emerges from the documentary urban river, but by then the woman has already gone on her way.
  • 23'
  • Taiwan
  • 2002
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Premiere
European premiere
Countries of production
Taiwan, France
Year
2002
Festival Edition
IFFR 2003
Length
23'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Tien chao bu jien le
Language
Mandarin
Producers
Homegreen Films Co., Frederic Papon, Oud - Studio National des arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy
Sales
Homegreen Films Co.
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Premiere
European premiere
Countries of production
Taiwan, France
Year
2002
Festival Edition
IFFR 2003
Length
23'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Tien chao bu jien le
Language
Mandarin
Producers
Homegreen Films Co., Frederic Papon, Oud - Studio National des arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy
Sales
Homegreen Films Co.