The house in the park  公园里的小屋

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Feature Documentary, 86 Min. by Hercli Bundi

Abstract

Architects from Europe, America and China are invited to a Chinese provincial town. Within several months, they are to construct a park in Jinhua, intended to form the centre of a new quarter of that town. Where green fields now flourish and farmers plough the land, investors will soon flock, followed by new inhabitants and sundry reforms.

But the project ends up being drawn out over years. The euphoria of the early stages runs up against a reality in which torn-open earth and the lofty hopes of politicians, workers and locals are the only manifest features.

The film documents the changes leading to the Jinhua Architecture Park - from the laying of the foundation stone to its final opening. In giving all participants in this process an opportunity to comment, one central question proved to be a common concern: What is there for individuals to contribute, when the world around them is changing at such a rapid pace?

Cast and Crew

Yu Qiurong, Ai Weiwei, Jiang Zexiao
The workers and residents of the Jinhua architecture park
and
Daniel Buchner & Andreas Bründler / Buchner Bründler architects
Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein / Christ & Gantenbein architects
Tilo Herlach & Simon Hartmann & Simon Frommenwiler / HHF architects
Ascan Mergenthaler / Herzog & de Meuron architects

Written, directed, edited, and produced by Hercli Bundi

Assistant ChinaLaurence Wang Wei
Sound engineerPatrick Becker
Dramatic advisorRolf Orthel
DOP SchweizPierre Mennel
DOP ChinaHercli Bundi
Affiliate ProducerVadim Jendreyko
MusicPaul Lemp
Sound mixGregg Skerman

Info

Feature Documentary, 86 Min. by Hercli Bundi, Coproduction Mira Film and      
China Film Coproduction Corporation Beijing

Developped through SOURCES 2, an initiative supported by the MEDIA program of the European Union
Funded by Fachausschuss Audiovision & Multimedia der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft, Kulturförderung Kanton Graubünden, Succès Passage Antenne

Press

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Festivals

Visions du Réel in Nyon, April 15 - 21, 2010.

China Documentary Film Festival in Beijing, May 1 - 7, 2010.

Milano Film Festival, September 10 - 19, 2010. Section "Movi(e)ng Cities".