[VID] Video installation, 35 mm film transfered to dvd, 20', 2007 This installation leads the viewer into a darkened space that resembles a camera obscura. The walls on each side of the room are covered with mirrors while a film is projected onto a screen hanging in the front. The film is a 20 minute short film shot in an old dilapidated cinema in Malaysia, the artist’s home country. It depicts the artist’s early cinema-going experience. The viewer watches the film while sitting in one of 30 red cinema seats shipped from the old Malaysian cinema seen in the film, emphasizing the complex feelings of displacement and distant memory (the artist himself has been living overseas in Taiwan for more than twenty five years). “So you've decided to watch my film. You enter and sit in a red chair in the dimly lit room. The seats are old and deteriorated, full of stains and dust. They've been shipped here from an old cinema far away that has ceased operation. That old cinema is now rotting away in a small quiet town. Naturally, it doesn't screen films anymore. What you are watching now was filmed at that cinema. It is actually my dream. However, the old cinema in my dream has been torn down long ago. I simply met another one at another location. It seemed to be calling out to me. “Come film me! Come film me quickly!” Tsai Ming-liang