MCLC: Zhao Liang's Behemoth

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Zhao Liang’s Behemoth
For those in NYC or passing through, Zhao Liang's film Behemoth (2015) has its North American premiere at Lincoln Center on March 17 and 18 (today and tomorrow). For details, see:
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show/behemoth
Here's an excerpt from Vimeo:
Political documentarian Zhao Liang draws inspiration from The Divine Comedy for this simultaneously intoxicating and terrifying glimpse at the ravages wrought upon Inner Mongolia by its coal and iron industries. A poetic voiceover speaks of the insatiability of desire on top of stunning images of landscapes (and their decimation), machines (and their spectacular functions), and people (and the toll of their labor). Interspersed are sublime tableaux of a prone nude body—asleep? just born? dead?—posed against a refracted horizon. A wholly absorbing guided tour of exploding hillsides, dank mine shafts, cacophonous factories, and vacant cities, Behemoth builds upon Zhao’s previous exposés (2009’s Petition, 2007’s Crime and Punishment) by combining his muckraking streak with a painterly vision of a social and ecological nightmare otherwise unfolding out of sight, out of mind.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 17, 2016
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