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When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest
DCP, 21mins, 2020 “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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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 |