‘Kaili Blues’ Filmmaker Bi Gan Explains How Magic And His, Kaili Blues - Critics Round Up, Cinema Scope | Kaili Blues (Bi Gan, China). Kaili Blues by director Gan Bi is a Chinese vision quest that could be the memory of a dream or the dream of a memory. It moves fluidly in time and space as Chen, a doctor from Kaili recounts events in his life around his early days as a criminal to the loss of his nephew Weiwei who’s been taken awa, Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s background is in poetry, and he gently weaves his passion for literature into his debut feature, Kaili Blues, a soulful portrait of a widowed country doctor haunted by the past, as well as a depiction of China’s increasingly rapid pace of cultural and economic, 'Kaili Blues' Filmmaker Bi Gan Explains How Magic And His Own Family Made His First Feature A Reality (Springboard). Time plays in an endless loop in “Kaili Blues,” forcing audiences to constantly revisit, and reassess, the past. For a rural Chinese doctor, facing bygone traumas is both a literal and figurative, fugue-enshrouded act, and one that’s recounted by debut writer-director Bi Gan with trance-like,.