Bi Gan
Bi Gan (born 1989) is a Chinese filmmaker, poet, and photographer whose dreamlike, time-folding features have made him one of the most distinctive new voices in world cinema. Born in Kaili in the Guizhou region of southern China — which he uses as the setting for his work — he is largely self-taught and discovered Tarkovsky, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Wim Wenders during a college period he describes as truant. His debut Kaili Blues (2015), built around a forty-minute single take through countryside and small towns, won Best New Director at the Golden Horse Awards and Best Emerging Director at Locarno. His second feature, Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), which premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard, ends with an hour-long 3D continuous take that audiences are instructed to put on the glasses for at a specific moment in the film.