Add to ORKGThe Malaysia-born, Taiwan-based flmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's Visage (2009) is a flm that was commissioned by the Louvre as part of its collection. His move to the museum space raises a number of questions: What are some of the implications of his shift in practice? What does it mean to have a flm, situated in art galleries or museum space, invites us to think about the notion of cinema, spatial confguration, transnational co-production and consumption? To give these questions more specifcity, this article will look at the triangular relationship between the flmmaker's prior theatre experience, French cinephilia's influence, and cinema in the gallery, using It's a Dream (2007) and Visage as two case studies. I argue Tsai's flm and vide...