Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang

Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang

AtlasV · 2022 · VR, Video Production, Story Rich, Emotional, Choose Your Own Adventure

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About Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang

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Step into the minds of five visionary filmmakers—Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se, and Naomi Kawase—as they reveal the unmade films that haunt their imagination in this immersive VR documentary series. Shot in stunning volumetric capture, each episode explores a different director's lost cinematic vision and the poignant reasons why these films were never brought to the screen.

Tsai Ming-Liang, the Taiwanese maestro of slow cinema, doesn’t have a real “missing picture”. But what he does have are childhood memories, so vivid that he told us why it is impossible for him to film it, in a moving tribute to his grandparents who took him to see two movies every night.

MISSING PICTURES is a 5-part documentary series in VR that brings to life unmade films. Shot in volumetric capture, the filmmakers Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se and Naomi Kawase narrate to us some key points of the movie and why it was never made.

What’s MISSING PICTURES?
* An immersive dive into the mind of some of the most interesting filmmakers of our time
* A unique documentary about history of Cinema
* Produced by ATLAS V, the award-winning studio that brought Gloomy Eyes, Battlescar, Madrid Noir, Ayahuasca - Kosmik Journey
* Five independent episodes, to be discovered in any order

A series directed by Clément Deneux from an original idea by Joseph Beauregard
Episode codirected with Kuan-Yuan Lai
Coproduced by Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
With the support from CNC, Pictanovo, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep-Angoa, TAICCA, Film Fund Luxembourg, RAPA and Ministry of Science and ICT (Republic of Korea)

Duration: 12 minutes
To be experienced seated

What Steam players say

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Recommended Dec 7, 2022
This is a 12 minute, purely cinematic 360 VR movie short. There are no interactions. It is fully voiced & available in several languages, including English. This is a story about a Malaysian kid who had a special relationship with his grandfather. The story is bittersweet. However, we see the origins of the author's love of cinema from this experience. Of the 3 movie shorts from the Missing Pictures series, I have seen so far, this is the best one. It's free. I do recommend it.
12 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 8, 2023
Missing Pictures : Tsai Ming-Liang is a free VR experience about a movie that was never made. It worked on my Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Tsai Ming-Liang, the Taiwanese maestro of slow cinema, doesn’t have a real “missing picture”. But what he does have are childhood memories, so vivid that he told us why it is impossible for him to film it, in a moving tribute to his grandparents who took him to see two movies every night. Shot in volumetric capture of the filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, which looked pretty good. CONS: - Might have to play with the bindings to setup a trigger to right and left controllers. Maybe check this out if you like movies or movie making or are a producer or movie studio exec looking for a project.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 9, 2023
[h1]Before I played Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Lang, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 23, 2025
Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this "art experience". Instead of being a game, Missing Pictures: Tsai Ming-Liang is a software application that presents a poorly made art exhibition. This is just a electronic documentary about a filmmaker nobody ever heard of, about his childhood in Malaysia. Let's all ask the question: Is watching a documentary about a filmmaker a game? No, no it is not. We get this non-game shovelware on Steam whenever your usual Starbucks barista/McDonalds frycook art school dropout finally gets a restraining order from the local art galleries so turns to Steam Direct to try get their art published somewhere so they can finally dream of moving out of their parents basement. It's true that games can be art... art is where the pinnacles of craftsmanship and quality meet vision and narrative to create an experience far greater than the sum of the parts. This isn't a game at all, and the craftsmanship and narrative are terrible. This isn't making art better, it's just making gaming worse. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "g…
1 found this helpful

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