Sep 3-11
Museum of Moving Image

From September 3 through 11, the Museum will present Kaili Blues, the stunning directorial debut from Chinese poet Bi Gan, in an exclusive New York return engagement after its successful Metrograph run.

Kaili Blues

Dir. Bi Gan. 2015, 113 mins. Digital projection. With Chen Yongzhong, Zhao Daqing. In Mandarin and Kaili dialect with English subtitles. Chinese poet and first-time filmmaker Bi Gan has made an astonishing debut film that is at once mesmerizing and enigmatic, a dreamlike cinematic tour de force. The elusive narrative revolves around the journey of a doctor from the rain-drenched city of Kaili to look for his brother’s abandoned child. As J. Hoberman writes in The New York Review of Books, “[Bi’s] full-throttle filmmaking manages to evoke Resnais, Tarkovsky, Hou Hsiao-hsien without ever seeming derivative.” A Grasshopper Film release. Event link
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 3:00 P.M. AND 6:00 P.M.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 3:00 P.M. AND 6:00 P.M.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2:00 P.M. AND 5:00 PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 5:00 P.M.