HOU HSIAO

Hou Hsiao-hsien is the most important Taiwanese filmmaker working today, and his sensuous, richly nuanced films reflect everything t hat is vigorous and genuine in contemporary film culture. By combining multiple forms of tradition with a uniquely cinematic approac h to space and time, Hou has created a body of work that, through its stylistic originality and historical gravity, opens up new pos sibilities for the medium.