The Last Year of Darkness

The Last Year of Darkness (2023)

午夜出走

Bass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.

Date of release
2023-03-21
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Ben Mullinkosson

Casting

Interesting facts

The Last Year of Darkness is a 2023 Chinese documentary film directed by Benjamin Mullinkosson that follows the lives of the queer patrons of a nightclub in Chengdu. The film had its premiere at the 2023 Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.

Production

The film was directed by American filmmaker Ben Mullinkosson and was filmed in Chengdu. All the subjects of the film were friends with Mullinkosson. The genesis of the film occurred when one of the subjects, Yihao, found out Mullinkosson was a documentary filmmaker, and asked to be filmed. The film was edited from 600 hours of footage shot over 125 nights in five years. Mullinkosson cited the 2009 Canadian film Last Train Home

as an influence on The Last Year of Darkness, another documentary made by a North American filmmaker and set in China.

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