The Looming Storm

There was a strong wave of independent and incredible arthouse cinema that came out of nowhere during the 2010s, primarily from an unexpected Mainland China. These films were focused on various aspects of life within China, often roaming around the industrial zones, within the chaotic small cities coated in snow and harsh rains. Perfect locations for crime dramas that explored broken characters within even more brok…

In 2015, the BBC published an article labelling China's Baogang Steel as "the worst place on Earth" for being a dark reminder of the environmental damage caused by our on-going desperation for metals that form our technological advancements. The factory forever pumping out toxic waste into what is now a lake of incomprehensible pollution, darkening the sky and filling the horizon on a seemingly city-sized scale. As…