‘Minding the Gap’ is a New Kind of Retrospective Coming-of-Age Story

Written by Luke Hicks

What first seems like a sweet story about a skateboarding community filling the emptiness left behind by broken families, molds layer-by-layer into a piercing excavation of the wide-reaching pain caused by domestic abuse. Written, produced, edited, photographed, and directed by Bing Liu, the documentary Minding the Gap is as much a portrait of the filmm…