Altiplano + Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
For the magazine's twentieth anniversary this year, a series of screenings has been planned on the double bill principle, with the main focus on a selection of rarely-seen films. Other movies in the program are also important milestones in the development of the critics' dialogue within one of Quebec's most dynamic film magazines.
Filmed in the Andean Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, Altiplano takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and coloured lakes. Fusing earth with sky, day with night, heartbeat with mountain, and mineral with iridescent cloud, Altiplano reveals a vibrating landscape in which a bright blue sun forever threatens to eclipse a blood-red moon.
A family's destiny follows the rhythm of nature, the cycle of the seasons and the life of a river.
Gu Xiaogang
Gu Xiaogang is a Chinese filmmaker. In the midst of his university studies in fashion design and marketing, he discovered a passion for cinema and filmmaking. He gained attention at the Critics' Week where his first feature film, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, closed the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, he filmed a side story short of this film, The Sail of Cinema... (2020), as a tribute to cinema.
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