Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

This film (drama)Also known as天梯：蔡国强的艺术，is aMainland China, United StatesProducerwomen sex，At2016Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish, Mandarin Chinese, Min，Current Douban rating8.6(For reference only)。

"Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" is the first documentary film about Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the most important artists in the world today. It is an inspiring story of how he started from China and became an artist with international influence, reflecting the pursuits and spirit of the new era of Chinese people. The film was directed by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald, who spent two years visiting the artist's work sites and interviewing his relatives, colleagues, and experts in New York, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Beijing, Liuyang, and his hometown of Quanzhou. It delves deeply into Cai Guo-Qiang's work and life, extracting the essence from thousands of hours of precious historical footage, telling the story of how he embarked from Quanzhou in the 1980s, grew through diverse cultures across five continents over 30 years, and became a globally renowned explosion artist on the international stage. The documentary also reveals another truth behind his spectacular art—his inner vulnerability, struggles, compromises, and deep, introspective feelings about family, hometown, and his motherland. The main storyline of the film, "Sky Ladder," features a 500-meter high golden firework ladder that roars skyward, conversing with the infinite universe. This reflects Cai Guo-Qiang's childhood dream of gazing at the sky, reaching for the clouds, and snatching stars, a dream he has pursued for over twenty years despite repeated failures. In June 2015, at dawn, on the beach of Huizhu Island in a small fishing village in Quanzhou, with the help and witness of domestic technical experts and hundreds of local villagers, he made another attempt, presenting "Sky Ladder" as a gift to his centenarian grandmother and his hometown…