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
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Photos
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
production assistant
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
JAEJIN PARK
additional cast
AARON CHOE, SOOHWI JO, SUYEE JUNG, SANGHEE KANG, SOLMIN KANG, SEUNGYEON KIM, JONGEON WON
segment producer
BONNIE KIM
segment director
segment director
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
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)
WITH SINCERE THANKS TO
VINCENT AHN, SUYEE JUNG, ABRAHAM LIM, YOUNGSOOK KIM, ANTHONY SEABOYER, HARRISON WINTER