UW Cinematheque - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair
The Hole | Taiwan, France | 1998 | 35mm | 95 min. | Mandarin with English subtitles Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Event Details
Date
Monday, June 29, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Yang Kuei-Mei, Lee Kang-Sheng, Miao Tien
In The Hole, unusual interactions between two residents (Lee and Yang) of an apartment building in an apocalyptic, virus-ridden Taipei become the foundation for a one-of-a-kind movie musical. Goodbye, Dragon Inn filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang’s work is often harsh and excruciatingly sad. Yet amid the static long takes and palpable loneliness, Tsai always finds clever ways to complicate the grimness of his subjects, tinkering with genre and bone-dry humor
In The Hole, unusual interactions between two residents (Lee and Yang) of an apartment building in an apocalyptic, virus-ridden Taipei become the foundation for a one-of-a-kind movie musical. Goodbye, Dragon Inn filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang’s work is often harsh and excruciatingly sad. Yet amid the static long takes and palpable loneliness, Tsai always finds clever ways to complicate the grimness of his subjects, tinkering with genre and bone-dry humor
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Monday, June 15, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.