Movie Review 'Sky Ladder The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang' 2016 Film

Documentaries about artists are often static affairs, filled with lingering shots of canvases while a narrator drones on. Not so with Kevin Macdonald's (The Last King of Scotland) film about Cai Guo-Quing, the Chinese conceptual artist whose accomplishments include creating the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Famed for his work with gunpowder and fireworks, the subject makes for a film that is literally explosive. Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang is receiving its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Rating - 4 / 5

Venue: Sundance Film Festival (World Documentary Competition)

Production: Explosion Art, Insurgent Docs

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Producers: Wendi Murdoch, Hugo Shong, Fisher Stevens

Executive producer: Bennett Miller

Directors of photography: Robert Yeoman, Florian Zinke

Editors: Nick Emerson, Adam Biskupski

World Sales: Cinetic Media

Not rated, 76 min.