Abstract
“The soundtrack invented silence,” wrote Robert Bresson (38), and some of the best directors in history, including Bresson, have fixed silence on film. For them, silence is both aural and visual—not merely the absence talk but the presentation of persons who fill our imaginations with what they are not saying. One uch director is the Malaysian-born Taiwanese Tsai Ming-liang, who has made a movie not only encased in quiet but also occupied with love, yearning, or union.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). The space of time, the sound of silence: tsai ming-liang’s what time is it there?. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_30
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