New Babylon (From the Home of Tycoons)

Published on: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:13:12 -0700

New Babylon is inspired by Alexandre Medvedkin's New Moscow (1939) where virtual renderings of Stalin's Moscow were played in reverse so that the old city replaces the new. The source for my video New Babylon is a 3-D flythrough bootlegged from a Beijing real estate development sales office. The purpose of the original video was to entice potential condominium buyers with Beijing's modernization and to celebrate wealth. When played in reverse (in my version) , the film becomes the opposite by showing the destruction of a major highway and the collapse of a high-rise apartment building complex.

Author: angiewaller
Keywords: experimental short film
Added: June 20, 2008