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Sunday, May 20, 2007
Dafen Village Movie
all work ©2007 Richie Gelles
Dafen Village is an urban village in Shenzhen where most of the world's oil painting reproductions come from. It has become some bizarre cross between an art scene, tourist attraction, production workshop, and museum. The building at the end of the movie is the new Dafen Art Museum (designed by Urbanus Architecture and Design), which responds spatially to the urban village landscape. This video uses a technique I saw first in the video for RJD2's 1976, the idea is to essentially use still photos in motion in order to create the illusion of movement and depth. I created this with Henry Zeng for Urbanus Architecture and Design. The music is by Funk Empire. Keep an eye out for the over sized Mona Lisa landmark.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Octopus Movie
all work © 2007 richie gelles
I created this movie in order to illustrate the effects the octopus card has on Hong Kong and its inhabitants. The Octopus Card is extremely flexible, it can be used for identification, credit, debit, security clearance, transportation, food, etc. The shopper who is the focus of the second part of the film is Sonia Mak, a fellow graduate of the University of Florida School of Architecture and a Hong Kong resident. The music contains excerpts from: "6IE.CR" by Autechre and "Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead.
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