Wayfaring in the Megacity
Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker and Lav Diaz’s Melancholia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20076368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabrielle Finnane (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 115-127 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2510860222 |
| ISBN | 9781137603647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Wayfaring, traveling on foot, is invested with a social significance depending on the social space of its motivation. Two recent films dwell on the wayfarer’s journey through a particular place and time. Tsai Ming-liang’s film Walker follows a Buddhist monk on a walking meditation through Hong Kong. Three versions of wayfaring—pilgrimage, walking meditation (kinhin) and walking in the city—merge in this 25-minute journey. In Lav Diaz’s eight-hour epic Melancholia, long scenes of walking and wandering compose a postcolonial psychogeography of the Philippines, spanning mountain towns, tribal life, guerilla warfare and sprawling urban territory. The film alternates, in its final hours, between tropical forest and the megacity outskirts. In these long-take sequences, wayfaring testifies to an unresolved conflict inherited from the past
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Cartography · Economy · Geography · Meditation · Megacity · Melancholia · Merge (version control) · Pilgrimage · Timeline · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |