Under construction

City planners decide to pull down parts of Shanghai’s old town in order to regenerate the city. Every year more then one hundred thousand families are forced to leave their homes and move into buildings on the edge of city. “Under construction” is a two- and three- dimentional flight across the now destroyed living areas of Shanghai which shows how random and brutal decisions can affect peoples’s lives.

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Production: Le Fresnoy, Studio National / Image: Zhenchen LIU / 3D animation: Zhenchen LIU, Guillaume NOEL / 2D animation: Pascale GUILLON, Xiaojing FU / Assistant of director: Zhenyi ZHU / Crane operator: Wei ZHANG / Sound: Pierre-Laurent CASSIERE / Sound mix: Christian CARTIER / Director of production: Jacky LAUTEM / Production manager: Alexandra DUFAUX

THANKS TO
Christophe KHIM, Marie-Thérèse CHAMPESME, Daniel DANIS, André S. LABARTHE, Daniel DOBBELS, Eric PRIGENT, Alain FLEISHER, Blandine TOURNEUX, Lijun WU, Xiaojing FU, Zhenyi ZHU, Fei GAO, Peili ZHANG, Le Fresnoy & my parents

SPECIAL THANKS
Massimillano SIMBULA, Florent LE DUC, Eric PRIGENT, Alexandra DUFAUX

09'55" / Color / 16/9 / Dolby Surround / Chinese Dialogue / English Subtitles / French Subtitles / Chinese Subtitles / 2007
Digital Beta / Beta SP / DVD / © Zhenchen Liu - Le Fresnoy 2007

Production: Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts
Distribution: Heure Exquise ! & Le Fresnoy