SENSATION IMAGES. THE BECOMING-OTHER CINEMA OF TSAI MING LIANG

Authors

  • ALITA SÁ REGO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2011.2903

Abstract

When he “paints” his pictures, the moviemaker Tsai Ming Liang is based in an aesthetic preciousness that transforms each plan in a block of sensations.  Through the relations he draws between color flows, lines, volumes, shapes, intensities and rhythms, the director  invests in a new regime of images: sensation-images, which cognitive process flees reason and leads the spectator to a becoming-other . This text analyses the images of The River, a picture in which Tsai Ming Liang radicalizes his aesthetic proposal of the sensation-images, which were present in a more diluted way in his other works. The picture won 1995 Berlin Film Festival, and was exhibited in Tsai Ming Liang: The artist of time, film shows held in November / December 2010 in Rio and Sao Paulo. My theoretical basis is the philosophy of  Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and José Gil, besides specific bibliography on cinema.

Key words: Theory of Image; Sensation; Cinema; Taiwan

Author Biography

ALITA SÁ REGO

Prof. Doutora da  UERJ/Faculdade de Educação da Baixada Fluminense (FEBF)

Published

2012-04-02

How to Cite

SÁ REGO, A. (2012). SENSATION IMAGES. THE BECOMING-OTHER CINEMA OF TSAI MING LIANG. POLÊM!CA, 10(3), 338 a 351. https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2011.2903

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HÍBRIDOS