A Sentimental Journey (Cole Seidl)
"[..] While in college, I embarked upon a love affair with “Contemporary Contemplative Cinema” or what has come to be more frequently called “slow cinema” (a term that I think greatly misrepresents what I found so intriguing and invigorating about the films). I was enamored with two filmmakers in particular: Chantal Akerman and Tsai Ming-Liang. So, when faced with the standard post-graduation crisis, I made the obvious decision. Move to Taiwan in the hopes of finding a way into that specific film industry, and maybe even on to the set of one of Tsai’s films. That never happened. Though I did find myself at the premiere screening of what was, at the time, his purported final film Stray Dogs. I watched a beautiful 35mm print of I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone that had no subtitles, and listened to an hourlong Q+A with Tsai, without an interpreter, and thus gleaned almost no valuable information. I sat in some of the seats from the torn down Fu-Ho theatre, where Goodbye, Dragon Inn...
