Video contest
Utopias and urban realities
1st INTERNATIONAL CHINA EUROPA SHORT FILM COMPETITION
While primarily being directed the world of the decision-makers, economists and experts, China Europa also makes way for artistic expression and young talents around Sustainable Urban Development...
This competition, opened to all the young film talents, is an initiative of China Europa 2009 organizers, a show and business convention scheduled on December 8th, 9th, 10th of this year. The objective is to associate a cultural event to these three days dedicated to business networking, with the wish to illustrate in an artistic way the chosen subject as the third edition of China Europa: “Sustainable Urban Development”.
I was addressed to students of Art schools, cinema, broadcasting and architecture; this competition mobilized about ten Chinese and European teams. 6 films were nominated and 3 were rewarded in Le Havre on April 2nd of this year by an eclectic jury chaired by the architect Paul Andreu.
Fictions, documentaries and cartoon movies made the success of this 1st edition. The quality and creativity of the students' work were greeted and Paul Andreu wished that this competition begins a long existence to bring on the foreground the other numerous young artistic talents.
A Chinese team and two French teams took won a prize. See the prize list.
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The nominated short films
Upriver
Paysage
Euthanasia
Red Spirit
Organic HK
Sunday, Paris will be silent
Out of competition
Play-Mobil
City and the 5 elements of Taoïsm
Mollusk
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Paysage
In this short film the forest symbolizes the animal and vegetable...
In this short film the forest symbolizes the animal and vegetable kingdom and city symbolizes human beings. The place reserved for fauna and flora, the lungs of the world, entirely lies in the hands of men.
Added 04 March 2009
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Title : Paysage
School : Normandie School of Architecture
Director : Thomas DEFRANCE
Typology : Animation
CHINA EUROPA GRAND PRIZE
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Organic HK
The short film presents how inhabitants...
The short film presents how inhabitants of Hong Kong appropriate the city and notably the many alleyway which separate towers : reinvented spaces.
Added 04 March 2009
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Title : Organic HK
School : University Paris 8
Director : Isabelle MAYOR
Typology : documentary
CITY OF LE HAVRE'S PRIZE
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Red Spirit
A little girl in a hospital room...
A little girl in a hospital room, she dreams she can fly above the city. Then her spirit escapes and flies over the city, but it is faced with the pollution, overpopulation, deterioration of the urban environment.
Added 06 March 2009
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Title : Red Spirit
School : Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
Director : Wang Qianru
Typology : Animation
LAFARGE NET SURFER'S PRIZE
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Upriver
Year 2072, Nantes is an modern, impersonal city...
Year 2072, Nantes is an modern, impersonal city, consisting of skycrapers made of glass and many endless towers. In this well programmed machinery, human being seems to be absent, just one of the many parts of the machine.
Added 06 March 2009
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Title : Upriver
School : Nantes School of Architecture
Director : François GUINAUDEAU
Typology : 3D Animation
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Euthanasia
In 2236, life expectancy is 150 years...
In 2236, life expectancy is 150 years and there is a governmental agency for euthanasia. The agency analyzes the case of a 163 years old citizen who has lost the desire to live in an unhealthy environment.
Added 04 March 2009
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Title : Euthanasia
School : Fine Arts Academy of Xi’an
Director : Shi Bin
Typology : Fiction
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Sunday, Paris will be silent
The short film recounts the story of a man subject to an identity crisis...
The short film recounts the story of a man subject to an identity crisis. He feels ill at ease with his life. Through the utopic gesture of escape, wandering, he breaks his relationship with the city.
Added 06 March 2009
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Title : Sunday, Paris will be silent
School : Paris - Malaquais School of Architecture
Director : Eugénie NAERT
Typology : Fiction
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Play-Mobil
The 24 hours journey of an anonymous person...
The 24 hours journey of an anonymous person, who discovers and tests the city of Bordeaux : pedestrian slab of Meriadek, the ice ring, the industrial wildland, ...
Added 09 March 2009
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Title : Play-Mobil
School : Bordeaux School of Architecture
Director : Paul COURNET
Typology : Creative work
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City and the 5 elements of Taoïsm
The short film illustrates the 5 elements of Taoism theory...
The short film illustrates the 5 elements of Taoism theory : metal, wood, water, fire and soil with the example of Nanjing. Fast development of cities interferes with harmony which has to exist between these elements.
Added 09 March 2009
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Title : City and the 5 elements of Taoïsm
School : Communication University of Nanjing
Director : Wang Gengxin
Typology : Documentary
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Mollusk
By asking the question « What is the impossible thing you would like to...
By asking the question « What is the impossible thing you would like to do to do in this city ? » the director has tried to find the distance between the idea of an ideal city and the reality in the eyes of the people.
Added 09 March 2009
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Title : Mollusk
School : Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou
Director : Xiong Xun
Typology : Documentary
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