Beijing's streets
Director Pablo Tréhin-Marçot
Countries
Duration 82 min
Synopsis
China took up this huge challenge: reshape the entire city of Beijing for the next Olympic games. Official sources says that they will only be 30% of the old Beijing left in august the 8th of 2008, opening date of the Olympics. BEIJING’S STREETS offers a serie of 12 shorts looks from the Old Bejing, the “vanishing Beijing”. We’re stopping in front of a shoemaker fixing a shoe, an old man taking his bird to the park in a cage or men playing cards in the street. The serie catches an ancient time-space, far from the noises of the construction works, of the ringroads and other shopping centers.
China took up this huge challenge: reshape the entire city of Beijing for the next Olympic games. Official sources says that they will only be 30% of the old Beijing left in august the 8th of 2008, opening date of the Olympics. BEIJING’S STREETS offers a serie of 12 shorts looks from the Old Bejing, the “vanishing Beijing”. We’re stopping in front of a shoemaker fixing a shoe, an old man taking his bird to the park in a cage or men playing cards in the street. The serie catches an ancient time-space, far from the noises of the construction works, of the ringroads and other shopping centers.