Oxhide II — April 11, 2010 The best film I saw at the 2009 Vancouver Film Festival was this realtime chronicle of the director Liu Jiayin and her parents preparing, cooking, and eating dumplings. It consists of only nine shots, with each setup spaced 45 degrees clockwise from the last. This

Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide II was my favorite film at the 2009 Vancouver Film Festival. It was one of those marvelous festival-going experiences where you don’t know anything about what movie you’re going to see, and it turns out to be something wondrous, in this case a two