Collections/December 2025
Two Films by Bi Gan
On the occasion of the theatrical release of his highly anticipated third feature Resurrection , journey into the mesmerizing world of Bi Gan, the Chinese auteur whose labyrinthine, dreamlike narratives and immersive, mind-bogglingly epic long takes have rapidly established him as one of contemporary cinema’s most exciting voices. His dazzling ambition is already on full display in his debut feature, Kaili Blues , an audacious time-slipping odyssey through rural China’s past, present, and future built around an astonishing forty-one-minute outdoor tracking shot. It’s surpassed only by the fifty-nine-minute unbroken take that concludes Long Day’s Journey into Night , a hallucinatory neonoir voyage into the unconscious mind.
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