Cinematic Gastronomy: Qiu Jiongjiong’s “Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting” and the Renaissance of Handcrafted Artifice
The international film circuit has long looked to Chinese independent cinema for gritty realism or sweeping historical epics. However, with the emergence of Qiu Jiongjiong, a painter-turned-filmmaker, a new vocabulary has entered the lexicon: the…