Olympic Taxi
Director Alessandro De Toni
Countries
Duration 85 min
Synopsis
An encounter with Beijing's taxi drivers before the Olympics, a dialogue peppered with many anecdotes and personal life experiences; a view from lower down, from a travelling car's window, to face the latest dream of today's China. The taxi drivers' world as seen through the camera lens is an entire universe, a life spent within a car's narrow confines, but it is also a view of what they themselves glimpse – snippets of reality on which they reflect and find their own interpretations of. The eye follows the images on the windows – a screen on which daily life and changes are reflected.
An encounter with Beijing's taxi drivers before the Olympics, a dialogue peppered with many anecdotes and personal life experiences; a view from lower down, from a travelling car's window, to face the latest dream of today's China. The taxi drivers' world as seen through the camera lens is an entire universe, a life spent within a car's narrow confines, but it is also a view of what they themselves glimpse – snippets of reality on which they reflect and find their own interpretations of. The eye follows the images on the windows – a screen on which daily life and changes are reflected.