Bloom is an impressionistic sketch of longing, growth, memory and separation. The film intends to portray an experiential landscape of love and loss. Starting in late 90s Beijing, a time when drastic social and economic transformation is taking place, the film attends to the inner world of a young man Mu Ke, and unravels with the dialogue of "exchanging story" between Mu Ke and his younger self. Narratives, memories, imaginations and disillusions flow out into an ocean of pure time.
Cinematography
90s Beijing as liquid architecture—smog, neon, and longing.
Direction
Xuan Liu treats time itself as a character with desires.
Writing
"Exchanging story"—dialogue that feels excavated, not performed.
Director
Xuan Liu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Late 90s Beijing was a city being unmade and remade overnight; the film's fragmentation mirrors that national vertigo.
The 'exchanging story' structure draws from Chinese oral tradition—storytelling as mutual survival, not mere confession.
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