New Dragon Inns

The title is borrowed from the film Goodbye Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-liang. The film is a sensitive lamentation about the disappearance of a beloved cinema. In this exhibition, the sadness about where film has to go in the future is converted into a cheerful energy. There are many new and different ways to screen film and a spatial installation is only one of them. Tsai Ming-liang very aptly built his own cinema with authentic classical Malaysian cinema seats for Is It A Dream? in order to screen his childhood dream in the cinema.

The other participating artists and film makers in this exhibition, featuring a cohesive film programme, come from Asia (China, Taiwan and Thailand), the continent that is in many ways trendsetting but from where very little is seen on our side of the world. Alongside the influential Tsai Ming-liang, there is also a work by the no-less-influential film makers Wang Bing and Achatpong Weerasethakul. And of course new names, because there is always a need for something to be discovered in Rotterdam.

Installations: Is It A Dream? - Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan), Iha formosa - Hongjohn
Lin (Taiwan), Crude Oil - Wang Bing (China), Nirvana - Yang Heng (China), Black Air - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (advisor), Pimpaka Towira, Jakrawal Nilthamromg, Akrichalerm Kalayanamitr, Koichi Shimizu (Thailand). The New Dragon Inns film programme can be found on the website and in the Daily Tiger.

when
Thursday 24 January until Thursday 3 February, daily from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm

where
(Former) Nederlands Fotomuseum