A journey through the rubble of a Shangai neighborhood razed to make room for urban redevelopment projects that are changing the face and life of the city. Combining real-life footage with 2D and 3D animated sequences, the Chinese artist Zhenchen Liu reconstructs the city's former appearance before its fall to the frantic modernization of a society that seems to have lost contact with its past.
Under Construction
Genre
Documentary
Country
France
Year
2007
Duration
10'
Production Companies
Le Fresnoy - Studio National Des Arts Contemporains
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Director's Notes
Director's Notes
«To comply with the actual planning of the government and the property developers of Shanghai, nearly 100,000 families are forced to move each year. Under Construction is a plastic and graphic representation of my sensations as I witness this destruction».
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