Outside
Director Sergio Cruz
Countries
Duration 15 min
Synopsis
"In China, culture and the arts are very closely linked to people and their lives. The street life in Beijing is a 24-hour live show full of music, dance and sports. Over a period of month residence time (September 2007), I was observing Chinese life, collecting "road images", documenting quotidian performances. When I was there, I saw a city that's literally exploding, in early transition from the ancient to the modern, adding skyscrapers and other buildings at a breakneck pace, the skyline of the city revised every few months or so, the city was clearly in the process of preparing for hosting the 2008 Olympics."
"In China, culture and the arts are very closely linked to people and their lives. The street life in Beijing is a 24-hour live show full of music, dance and sports. Over a period of month residence time (September 2007), I was observing Chinese life, collecting "road images", documenting quotidian performances. When I was there, I saw a city that's literally exploding, in early transition from the ancient to the modern, adding skyscrapers and other buildings at a breakneck pace, the skyline of the city revised every few months or so, the city was clearly in the process of preparing for hosting the 2008 Olympics."