Behemoth

(Bei xi mo shou, Zhao Liang, China 2015, 90 min., DCP, Mandarin w/subtitles)

Labor Film Series | Rochester Premiere. Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang’s visionary new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove illusory.