Nanjing Grand Theatre
Karjalainen Hannu
Nanjing Grand Theatre was a cinema specializing in Hollywood movies, in the 1930s Shanghai. In the early 2000s the building had to make way for a multi-lane highway. In a massive operation the whole building was lifted from the ground and moved. The video is shot on the original site.
Production Year
2012
Duration
00:05:10
Tyyppi
Asiasana
architecture, buildings, colours, experimental films, music, reflection, speech (phenomena), urban space
Original Title
Nanjing Grand Theatre
Finnish Title
Nanjing Grand Theatre
English Title
Nanjing Grand Theatre
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Hannu Karjalainen (Author), Hannu Karjalainen (Director)
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Hannu Karjalainen is an internationally acclaimed Finnish artist who lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated as MFA from the University of Industrial Arts Helsinki in 2005. His video and sound installations and films have been presented in museums, galleries and festivals since 2003 and he has held solo exhibitions participated in numerous group exhibitions and film screenings in Finland and abroad in e.g. Oslo, Zürich and Berlin. He was selected as the Young Artist of the Year in 2009.
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