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Overview

Sometimes all it takes is a little imagination to make your city a better place to live.

Five cities. Five stories. This documentary looks at the urban experience from the perspective of people living at the interface of the changing world. In New York, Seoul, Mumbai, Paris and Nairobi creativity and imagination is necessary to survive and thrive as the cities they live in constantly evolve.

Narrative based on CROSSROADS: Building the Resilient City by Dominique Perrault, General Director of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021

DIRECTOR

NILS CLAUSS & NEIL DOWLING

PRODUCTION

A CONTENTED PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH SEOUL BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 2021

VIDEO


SCREENSHOTS


Top-down view of dense mid-rise apartments in Seoul.
Group synchronizing gestures outside school building on NYC court.
Man on patterned couch, woman offering drink in Mumbai apartment.
Star-shaped lights glowing on Seoul rooftop at night.
Man walking past purple-blue lockers in Seoul station corridor.
Man skipping rope on rooftop with Seoul skyline at dusk.
Woman facing overgrown bus in Nairobi under Ferris wheel.
Woman and white dove on overgrown bus in Nairobi.
Man with VR headset in modest Mumbai room.
Man mimicking air-guitar with yellow tour flag on stone steps in Paris.

LEADING PRODUCTION TEAM


EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

GREEN KIM & JEONGWOOK CHA

PRODUCER

NILS CLAUSS

DIRECTOR

NILS CLAUSS & NEIL DOWLING

WRITER

NEIL DOWLING, NILS CLAUSS

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, EDITOR, COLORIST, RE-RECORDING MIXER

NILS CLAUSS

COMPOSER

YEHEZKEL RAZ

ADDITIONAL MUSIC

THE WORLD OF HAPPINESS BY DAE-SOO HAN, MARCH FOR JUSTICE BY TENCHER

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

DADEUM GEUM

SUBTITLES

ANNEX

NEW YORK SEGMENT PRODUCTION


MAIN CAST


CARLOYN KANG

ADDITIONAL CAST

GIULIA BALDINI, IMAN CHAN, CASIANO HAMER, NIA IMANI, GLORIA JUNG, ALICE CHARLIE LIU, SELENA LIU, CHANTEL NICOLE, NATSNET MEHRETEAB, SEBASTIAN MONTALVO, DANIELLE OKPARAOCHA, CHELI SMITH, TOBIAS WONG, JENNIFER XIONG, ALEX ZHANG

SEGMENT PRODUCER

CAROLINE PARK

SEGMENT DIRECTOR

EILEEN YOON

SEGMENT DOP

DANIEL CHANG

SOUND RECORDIST

PATRICK ZIMMON

SOUND RECORDIST 


AUSTIN EDER

MUMBAI SEGMENT PRODUCTION


MAIN CAST

ISHAN SINGH

ADDITIONAL CAST

KANAK GARG, NISHA KHAIRE, LEENA LALJI MANGE, PRIYA MATHPAL, NAAZ A. SYED

SEGMENT DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER

TAHIR AHMED QURESHI

SEGMENT DOP

ADITYA DESAI

SOUND RECORDIST

PREM YADAV

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

KAMLA PRASAD PAL

SEOUL SEGMENT PRODUCTION


MAIN CAST 


JAEJIN PARK

ADDITIONAL CAST

AARON CHOE, SOOHWI JO, SUYEE JUNG, SANGHEE KANG, SOLMIN KANG, SEUNGYEON KIM, JONGEON WON

SEGMENT PRODUCER

BONNIE KIM

SEGMENT DIRECTOR

NILS CLAUSS

SEGMENT DOP

EUNGJI LEE

SOUND RECORDIST

MJ LEE, HYUNSOO JEONG

PARIS SEGMENT PRODUCTION


MAIN CAST

FREDERIC BURET

ADDITIONAL CAST

LORNA BENNOU, ALAN BOUTELEIX, MORGAN DIFELICE, CERSTIN HENNING, ROMAIN NALYSZA, ANA NOVOA, LILY MALYOZA, ALAIN MAUREY, ALICE O’DONNELL, JULIETTE O’DONNELL, ANTHONY OHANESSIAN, CAROLINE PEREZ, LILLY-AMBRE PEREZ, MATHILDE ROCHE, TARIAN SCOTT, JEAN LUC SEREPHIM, JOANA SERAPHIM, VICTOR SOCK, CHLOE VERSIARI

SEGMENT PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR / DOP

NEIL DOWLING

SOUND RECORDIST

LOIC JOYEUX

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

NATHALIE O’LENSKIE

NAIROBI SEGMENT PRODUCTION


MAIN CAST

SHIVISKE SHIVISI

ADDITIONAL CAST

RAJAB BAHMARIZ, SAN MAINA, TONNY BRIAN MUTUMA, DAVIS MWANGALE, , MARY WAITHERA, MARGARET WANJIRU KAMINJA

SEGMENT PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR

MUCHIRI NJENGA

PRODUCTION MANAGER

MICHAEL J. MWANGI

SEGMENT DOP

SHURIA ABDI

ART DIRECTOR

DICKSON KALOKI

SOUND RECORDIST 


JOHN KAMICHA

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

CLINTON KAIDA

SEOUL BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 2021


GENERAL DIRECTOR

DOMINIQUE PERRAULT

BIENNALE COORDINATOR

RICHARD NGUYEN

COORDINATION TEAM

CAMILLE ABEILLE, ENRICO SALVO

HOSTED BY


SEOUL METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT

DIRECTOR FOR URBAN SPACE PLANNING

DONG GU KIM

TEAM LEADER, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

KYUNG SUN PARK

PROJECT MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

SUN JAE KIM


WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO

WITH SINCERE THANKS TO

AREX AIRPORT RAILROAD, CHEEZE CAM (SEOUL), QUENTIN GALLIC, ALBRECHT GERLACH, SPORTS MONSTER, UDO LEE, CHARLOTTE PERNIER, HUGO PERNIER, PHOTO CINE RENT (PARIS), SIDDHI VINAYAK RENTAL EQUIPMENTS (MUMBAI)

VINCENT AHN, SUYEE JUNG, ABRAHAM LIM, YOUNGSOOK KIM, ANTHONY SEABOYER, HARRISON WINTER


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