刘广隶
  • Guangli Liu
  • Guangli Liu
  刘广隶
When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest
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DCP, 21mins, 2020
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“It was 1974, war had lasted for years…” So begins the memory of an old Chinese man who lived through the regime of the Khmer Rouge led by the Communist Party of Cambodia. The tightly controlled Cambodian media left very few images between 1975 and 1979. This was a time when millions of people died unnecessarily and about 200,000 were people of Chinese descent. Guangli Liu’s film is a collective imagination of that lost history based on propaganda videos and the disaster videos which spread throughout the world after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Narrated through the autobiographical voice, a tender, personal history unfurls as a virtual reality of an imagined recent past. Detailing the human condition and traumas of the dispossessed. The contrast between the archive footage and the 3D reconstruction shows the role of the experimental digital as it interweaves memory with history into the universal of being human. (Jutta Schmiederer)

Credits:
Original script: Guangli Liu 刘广隶
Image: Pauline Sicard
Voice: Xu Wenliang 许文良
Animation 3D : Guangli Liu, Huimin Wu 刘广隶,武慧敏
Technical assistant: Wenli Li 李雯丽
Editing: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Léo Guillaume, Yuyan Wang, Guangli Liu 王裕言,刘广隶
Film score composer: Yoann Helynck
Sound Designer: Martin Delzescaux
Sound Editing: Martin Delzescaux, Inoa Kan
Artistic accompaniment: Paolo Cirio

Technical information:
Location : Nice, France
Video Format: Digital cinema, HD
DCP: yes - 24 fps    
Process : Black and White
Frame format / Image ratio : 16/9=1.77
Sound format / Ratio : Dolby Digital 5.1
Sound version : Voice over
Language of the original version : Chinese
Subtitle language: French, English, Spanish


Production / Distribution : Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains
Responsable du projet : François Bonenfant 
Chargé de production : Guylaine HUET
Contact : Natalia Trebik, Responsable de la diffusion des oeuvres
Adresse bureaux : 22, rue du Fresnoy 59200 Tourcoing
Tél. : 03 20 28 38 64 / Fax : 03 20 28 38 99
Mail : [email protected] 
​Site : www.lefresnoy.net + www.panorama21.net



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Festivals and Exhibitions:
Awards:
Panorama 22, collective exhibition, Tourcoing, France
It’s all true – International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil

Regensburg Short Film Week, Regensburg, German
Festival natinal du court-métrage étudiant, Paris, France
Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
​21th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Seoul, South Korea 
Festival Silhouette de Paris, Paris, France 
Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Bali International Short Film Festival – Minikino Film Week, Bali, Indonesia 
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, America
TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE Festival, Tranås, Sweden
IndieCork Festival, Cork, Ireland
shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Bern, Switzerland
Made in China Film Festival, Rennes, France 
Festival International de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, America

Beijing International Short FIlm Festival, Beijing, China

Poem and Video Art, Jiazazhi, Ningbo,China
Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
ONE SONG IS VERY MUCH LIKE ANOTHER, AND THE BOAT IS ALWAYS FROM A FAR, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
HiShorts! Film Festival, Xiamen, China

DOCA International Documentary Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Price Golden Nica in Computer animation, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Prix des amis du Fresnoy, mention vidéo, Tourcoing, France
Beijing International short films festival, Beijing, China
Golden Key for best short film, Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
Honorable mention, Chicago Underground Film Fest, Chicago, America
First Price, Festival International de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina