Bing Liu ’s Oscar-nominated 2018 feature doc Minding the Gap is an intensely personal chronicle of three friends in an Illinois town united by their love of skateboarding and their traumatic childhoods. Clear-eyed and forthright about the fallout of fractured families, the film also weaves a dreamscape of sorts out of meditative interludes of skate footage that provide fluidity in a shape-shifting narrative . A similar free-flowing spontaneity, intimacy and compassion grace Liu’s first dramatic feature, Preparation for the Next Life , along with a deep affinity for troubled young people seeking refuge in one another while they attempt to establish a foothold as independent adults.

Bing Liu ’s Oscar-nominated 2018 feature doc Minding the Gap is an intensely personal chronicle

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