"A Short Story” / KAILI BLUES
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Los Feliz 3
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ABOUT THE FILMS:
“A Short Story,” 2022, Dir. Bi Gan, 15 Min, Kino Lorber, China
In Mandarin with English subtitles.
All the inventiveness of Bi Gan—the Chinese cineaste best known for an epic with an astonishing hour-long take—is channeled into his spellbinding new short. Unfurling from a feline point-of-view, this surrealist trick film draws from the realm of dreams and is brimming with technical magic.
FORMAT: DCP
KAILI BLUES, 2015, Dir. Bi Gan, 123 Min, Grasshopper Film, China
In Mandarin with English subtitles.
An audacious, richly imagined feature debut, KAILI BLUES heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother’s wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brother’s abandoned child. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks him to also find her former lover, giving him a photograph, a shirt, and a music cassette. On the way, Chen passes through a mysterious town where distinctions between past, present, and future appear to slip away.
FORMAT: DCP
