The Moon Palace

The Moon Palace is a portrait of Qiu’s father and the restaurant he ran. In this experimental black-and-white documentary, vivid evocations of Sichuan opera alternate with Qiu’s father’s elegies to wine and Qiu’s aunties’ reminiscences about politics, art and movie stars. The simulated interviews with non-synchronous sounds compose a patriarchal portrait that is rambunctious, probing, nostalgic and critical.