Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald chronicles the making of the rip-across-the-sky fireworks of world-renowned contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.  This portrait of an artist’s process fuses family and history to Cai’s spectacularly expressive art of gunpowder pyrotechnics.

DCP, color, in English and Mandarin with English subtitles, 76 min.  DIR: Kevin Macdonald.

Co-presented with the UCLA Confucius Institute.

Special thanks:  Netflix, Fredell Pogodin.

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