Brilliant City
Sound for video by D-Fuse
The film Brilliant City was produced during a stay in Shanghai with the British Council's Artist Link Program. The title refers to the name of the location, a residential complex comprised of 25 high-rises in the northern part of Shanghai. It is entirely shot from the 34th floor of one of the buildings and stages a peeping tom view of the surrounding city, capturing everyday activities that can be observed from this vantage point - training soldiers, building activity, traffic, gardening. The camera hovers above the entire panorama and focuses on details in the surrounding urban fabric. The film reacts to a particular visual paradigm, which is well known from strategy and simulation computer games as the so called God View. It is the distanced perspective usually taken on by city planners, game players or politicians. In these situations people turn from individuals into patterns of movement and symbolic activity, and the viewer is turned into an accomplice of the visual apparatus and the power relations it signifies.
| Rebirth @ 800 Show - Shanghai, China | 10 - 30 September 2009 |
| Milan Film Festival - Milan, Italy | 11 - 21 September 2008 |
| Dis-Locate - Tokyo+Yokohama, Japan | 30 August - 21 September 2008 |
| Hipersonica, São Paulo, Brazil | 14 - 17 August 2007 |
| Scanners Film Festival - New York, USA | 29 July 2007 |
| Video As Urban Condition - Linz, Austria + Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 19 April - 27 May 2007 |
| Icebox - Cape Town, South Africa | 21 February - 10 March 2007 |
| Temps D'Images - Montreal, Canada | 22 February - 4 March 2007 |
| MIACA - Tokyo, Japan | 15 - 21 November 2006 |
| Freewaves - Los Angeles, USA | 3 - 30 November 2006 |
| Cineboards - Rotterdam + Den Haag + Eindhoven, Netherlands | 15 - 21 August 2006 |
| onedotzero @ Red Dot Museum - Singapore | 22 - 25 June 2006 |
| onedotzero @ ICA - London, UK | 9 - 10 June 2006 |
| Starkwhite Gallery - Auckland, New Zealand | 5 June - 1 July 2006 |
| Cybersonica - London, UK | 20 May 2006 |
| Lovebytes - Sheffield, UK | 20 - 25 March 2006 |
| Sonic Recycler - Brentford, UK | 8 April 2006 |
| onedotzero_Transvision - V+A, London, UK | 24 February 2006 |
| Duolun Museum of Modern Art - Shanghai, China | 25 January 2006 |
| Plasma - Florence, Italy | 11 - 14 January 2006 |
| International Short Film Festival - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | 1 - 11 December 2005 |
| Cimatics Festival - Brussels, Belgium | 26 October - 6 November 2005 |
| International Small Film Festival - Berkeley, USA | 20 - 29 October 2005 |
| Video Lisboa#5 - Lisbon, Portugal | 7-11 September 2005 |
| Tulsa Overground - Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA | 21 August 2005 |
| Lothringer Dreizehn - Munich, Germany | 16 November 2005 - 16 January 2006 |
| Bunkier Sztuki - Krakow, Poland | November 2005 |