In a world devoid of dreams, a woman (Shu Qi) wakes up from brain surgery in a dystopian near future. As she recounts the history of China to an android (Jackson Yee), they live out several past lives together through a confluence of dream and memory, passing through five cinematic eras that reshape their shared experience.

Bi Gan’s century-spanning, genre-defying fantasmagoria is both an ode to cinematic forms and a mind-bending odyssey through recent Chinese history. As the Android begins to understand the situation at present, their emotional bond makes it difficult for her to leave and explore the daunting world of reality that exists just beyond the frame. A deft filmic practitioner, Bi Gan expertly uses five cinematic lenses to explore each of the epochs, beginning with a nosferatu-esque reimagining of the silent era and concluding with ‘the end of cinema’. Fans of his work will recognize the master’s consciousness-expanding depiction of time and space via intricate long takes and a new collaboration with French electronic musicians M83.

A masterpiece of epic proportions, Resurrection solidifies Bi as one of the most daring, adventurous and enigmatic filmmakers working today.