Whilst perhaps best known for Yi Yi (2000) and A Brighter Summer Day (1994), the work that Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang made in the 1980s and 1990s was no less astonishing.

A leading figure of the New Taiwanese Cinema movement, Yang was among the first to explore Taiwan's rapid urbanisation and much of his work in the 1980s and 1990s centres upon the lives of people attempting to navigate the ever evolving city of Taipei.

To celebrate the restoration of two of Yang's most overlooked works A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong, the ICA is delighted to present a programme of four films by Edward Yang including Taipei Story, The Terrorizers on 35mm and these two brand new restorations.

Tue 27 August, 8.30pm
Repeat screening Fri 6 Sep
Taipei Story (4K Restoration)
Edward Yang's mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalised modernity.



Thu 29 August, 6.30pm
Repeat screening Sat 7 Sep
The Terrorizers on 35mm
Imbued with a languid and troubling sense of unease, Yang’s third feature The Terrorizers centres the mysterious connections that draw together a largely disparate group of individuals in contemporary Taipei.



Sat 31 August, 4pm
Repeat screening Wed 11 Sep
A Confucian Confusion (4K Restoration)
Edward Yang's sweeping satire of 1990s Taipei charts the tangled web of emotional and professional manipulations among a group of young urbanites.



Sun 1 September, 4pm
Repeat screening Thu 12 Sep
Mahjong (4K Restoration)
Edward Yang’s penultimate film is an acerbic, sprawling tragicomedy, a poison love letter to Taipei as a rising cosmopolis of big money, big dreams, and big cons.