Resurrection - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
In a near future, humanity has abandoned the dream of eternal life. One man refuses to accept that fate. The mysterious “Fantasmer” drifts through different eras and identities — from a ghostly figure in the world of silent cinema to a noir hero, gangster, and wandering soul on the eve of the year 2000. A woman with the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy tries to see through the veil of illusion and reach him, while he sinks ever deeper into his own imagination.
With each episode, the film’s style transforms as well: from expressionist silent cinema to feverish crime noir and hypnotic long takes that dissolve any sense of time. Dizzying camera movements, mesmerizing imagery, and an atmosphere suspended between dream and memory turn Resurrection into both a tribute to a century of film history and a meditation on desire, imagination, and the rapid transformations of modern China.
Rather than constructing a conventional narrative that demands to be fully explained, Bi Gan creates a sensory experience in which images, music, and movement constantly generate new meanings — as if you are slowly wandering through someone else’s dream, never quite certain where it ends.
- 19:00
Kies tijdstip
- filmspecial
In a near future, humanity has abandoned the dream of eternal life. One man refuses to accept that fate. The mysterious “Fantasmer” drifts through different eras and identities — from a ghostly figure in the world of silent cinema to a noir hero, gangster, and wandering soul on the eve of the year 2000. A woman with the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy tries to see through the veil of illusion and reach him, while he sinks ever deeper into his own imagination.
With each episode, the film’s style transforms as well: from expressionist silent cinema to feverish crime noir and hypnotic long takes that dissolve any sense of time. Dizzying camera movements, mesmerizing imagery, and an atmosphere suspended between dream and memory turn Resurrection into both a tribute to a century of film history and a meditation on desire, imagination, and the rapid transformations of modern China.
Rather than constructing a conventional narrative that demands to be fully explained, Bi Gan creates a sensory experience in which images, music, and movement constantly generate new meanings — as if you are slowly wandering through someone else’s dream, never quite certain where it ends.
