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Behemoth (Chinese: 悲兮魔兽; pinyin: bēixī móshòu) is a Chinese documentary film directed by Zhao Liang about the environmental, sociological, and public health effects of coal-mining in China and Inner Mongolia.
Mar 4, 2016 · Zhao Liang's Behemoth is industry, equal in scale and destruction to its biblical counterpart. A somber examination of Mongolia's mining communities, the film shows their environmental and human tolls.
- Mitch Sawyer
Aug 19, 2016 · Behemoth: Directed by Liang Zhao. Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle.
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- Documentary
- Liang Zhao
- 2016-08-19
Oct 25, 2015 · Maverick indie helmer Zhao Liang continues his muckraking tour of China’s social and environmental woes with the stunningly lensed, cumulatively moving “Behemoth.”
Sep 11, 2015 · Zhao and his French co-writer (and producer) Sylvie Blum draw inspiration from Dante’s Divine Comedy, beginning with the image of a massive rock crater ruptured by explosions that send...
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang details the social and ecological devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove illusory. A journey through hell exploring the bestiality of civilisation.
Jan 27, 2017 · Starting many of his scenes by having a naked man—an Adam—lying on his side in the landscapes Liang shoots, the movie is punctuated by texts that Liang and co-writer Sylvie Blum adapted from Dante’s Inferno.
