The house in the park 公园里的小屋
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Feature Documentary, 86 Min. by Hercli Bundi
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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 China | Laurence Wang Wei |
| Sound engineer | Patrick Becker |
| Dramatic advisor | Rolf Orthel |
| DOP Switzerland | Pierre Mennel |
| DOP China | Hercli Bundi |
| Affiliate Producer | Vadim Jendreyko |
| Music | Paul Lemp |
| Sound mix | Gregg 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
ISAN Nr. 0000-0002-67D8-0000-Q-0000-0000-X
Press Review
Hochparterre, 5/2011 (PDF 2 MB)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ, 12.5.2011 (PDF 123 KB)
Wochenzeitung, WOZ, 12.5.2011 (PDF 1.9 MB)
Sonntagszeitung, 15.5.2011 (PDF 246 KB)
Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 17.5.2011 (PDF 193 KB)
Neue Zuger Zeitung, 18.5.2011 (PDF 516 KB)
Tele Basel 7VOR7, 24.5.2011
BAZ, 8.6.2011 (PDF 135 KB)
St. Galler Tagblatt, 30.7.2011 (PDF 217 KB)
LaQuotidiana, 19.8.2011 (PDF 86 KB)
Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha, 20.8.2011
Südostschweiz am Sonntag, 30.10.2011 (PDF 1.2 MB)
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".
DOChina in Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan.
Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, March 21 - 27, 2011, www.worldfilm.ee
Yunfest Kunming, China, March 21 - 27, 2011
2nd Overview of Swiss Contemporary Cinema, Sao Paulo, 13 - 22, May 2011
Ai Weiwei
Kunstmuseum Luzern "Shanshui - Die Landschaft in der chinesischen Gegenwartskunst" curated by Ai Weiwei, Peter Fischer & Uli Sigg, vernissage 20th May 18.30h, Master Talk 21st May