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Demolition = Chai qian
Title
Demolition = Chai qian / produced at the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center, Harvard University ; J.P. Sniadecki.
拆迁 = Demolition / produced at the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center, Harvard University ; J.P. Sniadecki.
Edition
Widescreen.
Published
Watertown, MA. : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced in 2008.
Recorded July 2007 in Chengu, China.
In Mandarin and Sichuanese with English subtitles; some credits in Chinese and English.
Summary
"A portrait of urban space, migrant labor, and ephemeral relationships in the center of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in western China. Attending first to the formal dimensions of the transforming worksite - including the demands of physical labor and the relationship between human and machine - the film shifts focus to the social dynamics of a group of thirty men and women who have come from the countryside to work in this ever-changing urban landscape. In exploring the various banal yet striking interactions between these members of China's "floating population," the city's residents, and the filmmaker, Demolition simultaneously expresses and resists the fleeting nature of urban experience."--Container.
Variant and related titles
Chai qian
Chaiqian
Demolition
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Chinese
Added to Catalog
March 05, 2018
Series
Sensory Ethnography Lab
System details note
DVD-R; NTSC; widescreen (16:9).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films - United States.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
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Harvard University. Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Harvard University. Film Study Center.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
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