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Zhenchen Liu

  • Under Construction (2007)    Watch the trailer

    • City planners decide to pull down parts of Shanghai's old town in order to regenerate the city. Every year more then one hundred thousand families are forced to leave their homes and move into buildings on the edge of city. "Under construction" is a two- and three- dimentional flight across the now destroyed living areas of Shanghai which shows how random and brutal decisions can affect peoples's lives.



    Crew
    Production: Le Fresnoy, Studio National / Image: Zhenchen LIU / 3D animation: Zhenchen LIU, Guillaume NOEL / 2D animation: Pascale GUILLON, Xiaojing FU / Assistant of director: Zhenyi ZHU / Crane operator: Wei ZHANG / Sound: Pierre-Laurent CASSIERE / Sound mix: Christian CARTIER / Director of production: Jacky LAUTEM / Production manager: Alexandra DUFAUX

    Thanks to
    Christophe KHIM, Marie-Thérèse CHAMPESME, Daniel DANIS, André S. LABARTHE, Daniel DOBBELS, Eric PRIGENT, Alain FLEISHER, Blandine TOURNEUX, Lijun WU, Xiaojing FU, Zhenyi ZHU, Fei GAO, Peili ZHANG, Le Fresnoy and my parents

    Special thanks
    Massimillano SIMBULA, Florent LE DUC, Eric PRIGENT, Alexandra DUFAUX

    09'55" / Color / 16:9 / Dolby Surround / Chinese Dialogue / English Subtitles / French Subtitles / Chinese Subtitles / 2007
    Beta SP / DVD / © Zhenchen Liu - Le Fresnoy 2007
    Production: Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts
    Distribution: Heure Exquise ! & Le Fresnoy



  • Shanghai Shanghai (2006)

    • "Shangai Shangai" presents Shanghai as it is conceived, thought out, imagined in models, virtually rendered videos, and the reality of the city. The film confronts three types of images: utopian images of the city; metaphorical images; and documentary images, real images from today.



    Crew
    Production: Le Fresnoy, Studio National / Image: Zhenchen LIU / Camera: Zhenchen LIU / Assistant of Director: Zhenyi ZHU / Crane operator: Wei ZHANG / Sound: Zhenyi ZHU, Zhenchen LIU / Editor: Zhenchen LIU, Baptiste EVRARD / Sound editor-Mixage: Christian CARTIER / Colour corrector: Baptiste EVRARD / Director of production: Jacky LAUTEM / Production manager: Am´lie DUBOIS

    Thanks to
    Zhenyi ZHU, Fei GAO, Peili ZHANG, Claude HUDELOT, Chuanhua CAO, Daxin LI, André S. LABARTHE, Madeleine VAN DOREN, Christophe KHIM, Francois ROUAN, Chantal Akerman, Kurt HENTSCHLAGER, Mauro LANZA, Alain FLEISCHER, Frédéric PAPON, Amandine FONDAINE, Pascal BUTEAUX, Florent LEDUC, Blandine TOURNEUX, Christian CHATEL, Jean-René LORAND, Fanny DOUARCHE, Laura GOZLAN, Michela FRANZOSO, Alejandro MONCADA, Le Fresnoy and my parents

    11'37" / Color / 4:3 / Dolby Surround / No dialogue / 2006
    Beta SP / DVD / © Zhenchen Liu - Le Fresnoy 2006
    Production: Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts
    Distribution: Heure Exquise ! & Le Fresnoy



  • Shanghaiexpress (2005)

    • "Shangaiexpress" is a whole day video shoot from the 56th floor of a homebuilding, a look at Shanghai harbour's hive of activity.



    Thanks to
    HU Yongqin
    06'17" / Video / Color / 4:3 / Stereo / No dialogue / 2005
    © Zhenchen Liu 2005