Pac Arts CINEMATHEK is a year-round screening series presented by Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts) and Digital Gym Cinema (DGC), launching in June 2025. Inspired by Pac Arts’ early Film Forums, Pac Arts CINEMATHEK offers members and the public year-round access to curated screenings of classic, cult, and newly restored Asian and Asian American films. Hosted at Digital Gym Cinema, this new film program strengthens community ties, builds new audiences, and celebrates the best of Asian cinema in one of San Diego’s last remaining venues for independent and international films.

Synopsis: On a storm-soaked night in Taipei, a grand but fading movie palace prepares to screen what may be its final film, King Hu’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn. As the martial-arts epic flickers across the cavernous auditorium, the handful of remaining patrons drift through the space like quiet spirits. You'll see a limping ticket-taker making her nightly rounds through the labyrinth of corridors, a Japanese tourist searching for connection in the shadows, and two aging actors from Dragon Inn watch their younger selves on the screen one last time.

Tsai Ming-liang transforms this near-empty theater into a world suspended between past and present, where memory and longing pool in every echoing footstep. Dialogue is nearly absent; instead, the hum of the projector, the cracking of snacks, and the relentless rain merge into a mournful soundtrack of a cinema nearing its end.

As the lights finally rise and the audience disperses, Goodbye, Dragon Inn becomes both an elegy for the vanishing experience of movie-going and a tender reminder of the strange, fleeting bonds formed in the dark.