Event

Minding the Gap

Fri Aug 24: 7.30pm
Sat Aug 25: 4.15pm, 7.30pm
Sun Aug 26: 4.30pm, 7.30pm
Mon Aug 27: 3.00pm
Tue Aug 28: 3.00pm
Wed Aug 29: 7.30pm

Bing Liu
US
2018
1h 38m
About
In Rockford, Illinois, Bing Liu has been filming his friends Zack and Kiere on and off their skateboards for ten years. Weaving archival footage, interviews, and incredible skate videos, Liu chronicles in simple and poetic fashion the lives of his inner circle of friends and family, revealing the damaging circumstances in which they all grew up. Less a film about skate culture and more an unusual and powerful coming-of-age story, Lius debut feature documentary is fresh and powerful, and should not be missed.

Theres also something deeply resonant in the way Liu captures a time when young men are both child and adult. Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

Roaming through ruminative passages filled with recollections and fears, the movie mirrors Boyhood in its capacity to capture the maturation process over a lengthy period. But where that movie provided a specific look at white, privileged American life (albeit one beset by divorce and other complications), Minding the Gap captures the opposite what it means to feel marginalized and repressed, while struggling to grasp the words to fight back. Eric Kohn, Indiewire