Stray Dogs at the Museum

A dying forest flared up and the flavor of damp ruin settled in on the tongue Tsai Ming Liang created an entirely novel artwork with his tenth feature film Stray Dogs at the Museum MoNTUE Moving images eclipsed in slivers and swathes by immovable shadows of deadwood Waking sleep and everything in between proved indistinguishable This documentary recreates elements of existential banality on view and guides focus inward It establishes a firm if converse analog between cinema and consciousness an interplay of movie and its constituent elements of light shadow and audience mirrored in consciousness and its building blocks of waking sleep and dream if you will