Past, present, and future side by side in today's Shanghai. Editing shots of neighbourhoods, streets and buildings mixed with virtual reality video sequences, Zhenchen Liu shows how radical transformation of the city's architecture is creating huge problems for residents who are often evicted under the urban renewal plan to make room for the future.
Shanghai Shanghai
Genre
Documentary
Country
France
Year
2006
Duration
12'
Production Companies
Le Fresnoy - Studio National Des Arts Contemporains
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Director's Notes
Director's Notes
«Shanghai Shanghai is a montage of virtual images touting the development program to developers and tourists and presenting the city as it will be when building is finished, with images of the construction sites taken by the artist himself showing how whole neighborhoods are being destroyed as their inhabitants are expelled, and sometimes even before they get out! We see a woman busy in her kitchen with, on one side, a blank space where the wall used to be…».
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