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Synopsis
A documentary on the last Chinese steam engines in the warehouse Daban of the company of railroad Jitong (in Internal Mongolia). The locomotive is the symbol of heavy industrial times. In this movie, the circling toxic vapors of the train create a kind of absurd beauty. The employees of Jitong are masked behind the images of gigantic locomotives. Their words release themselves in front of the camera. People are nostalgic, restless, satisfied, more or less aware of their exploitation at the time. Their dialogues represent a radical attitude of the worship of the money by describing the expansion of the socité Jitong, revealing of China in development.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Lixin Bao
- Director of Photography : Hongwu Guo
- Editor : Haydée Parcollet
- Sound recordist : Lixin Bao
- Production Manager : Jacky Lautem
- Sound Editor : Yann Leguay
- Sound Mixer : Maxime Champesme
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Psychological drama, Video art
- Themes : Nostalgia, Work
- Production language : Chinese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 12 min 46 seconds
- Production formats : DV-CAM - HDV
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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