| dc.description.abstract | Being the first audio-visual work of the Louvre, Face of Tsai Ming-Liang finally came out in 2009, which is not only a tribute of the Cinema New Wave (especially for the famous French director, François Truffaut), but also a dedicate for Tsai’s deceased mother. By his work Face, Tsai was attempting to lead all his beloved to the eternal Pantheon of art. Face is a film about mourning, death, cinema and life, in which Tsai tries to show an aesthetic image of “mirror, flower, water and moon”. Therefore, this research aims to explore the image of “mirror, flower, water and moon” and looks forward to provide different aspects full of dynamic.
This analysis is divided into three chapters for themes: mourning, death, and cinema/life. First chapter is based on Bachelard’s theory which is about images of water. Via different regards on water reflects, ambivalence of material imagination and combinations with others materials like night or earth, we try to interpret the emotions behind the surface of images during mourning. Second chapter talks about death toward the staring of human corps. Still base on Bachelard’s theory, through combination of water and earth, we mean to check out the action of body’s modelling and its material dynamic. In Chapter III, according to Bachelard, we attempt to verify the relation between creator and creation and we would see how Tsai combined his life experience in his film work, Face.
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