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3x3 Lecture Part IV, JULY 18, 2006 San Yuan Li is a case study of a typical village-amid-the-city phenomenon in the process of the urbanization of Guangzhou. The crew penetrates San Yuan Li Village as "City Flaneur", rethinking back into the depth of its history, the confrontation and reconciliation between the process of modernization, and the patriarchal clan system, as well as the rural community system in Guangdong. The bizarre architectures and views of humanity have been captured into this black and white cine-poem. The documentary was commissioned by the Z.O.U. (Zone of Urgency), 50th Venice Biennale (2003). San Yuan Li has just about every graphic angle cut to cut so that nook to cranny soars past specificity. The terrain of high-rise--economic thrust and colonization, the swoops down on life in the crags close to the earth, life as survival economy, economy as relationship, economy everywhere--emptiness, narrow spaces, endurance, bleakness, advancement and decay, and of course--light, wind, success, to see it all. A continual wave at harassing fast pace blows and catches the between--this is how it is recorded and how it is seen. This is the window from which a fresh gust of wind might be felt. This is one more story told with the camera, one that we re-record as direct experience, again with the eye, forty minutes, via multi-angled vigilance, defiance, singularity, and deep camaraderie. This is but one wind. by Brent Hallard, Tokyo Note, Japan, January 2004

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