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philipp ennemoserurban dynamics international video project (2004)

In an ever faster moving world cities have become somehow fascinating for us. They do not only respresent mankind's belief in technology but do also provide us with an endless variety of images and sounds.

urbanDynamics is an international video project designed to cover global urban dynamics. Its aim is to make a collage of urban environments around the world by assembling video footage from citizens. It's an experiment that totally depends on the participants, who rediscover their cities with a simple miniDV camcorder.

Besides, the project can promote a more positive point of view towards globalisation by recognizing the possibility of making such a project with unknown people simply on the basis of confidence and the spirit of film making.

Over the period of a year 26 people from 17 different countries joined the project and contributed video footage or music to the project. It has shown me that our world has really developed to a global village. Regarding the fact that those 26 people have never met but produced a film together shows the new opportunities of a globalised world for the "normal" people.


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Director: philipp ennemoser
Producer: philipp ennemoser
Production Company: philipp ennemoser
Audio/Visual: rj marshall, les jumeaux, color
Language: english
Keywords: urban dynamics; urbanisation; urbanization; agglomeration; cities

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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Reviewer: sjef van hoof - - April 25, 2006
Subject: Nice background movie
Ennemoser and his colleagues made a very worthwhile attempt to make features of modern city life visible. It is nearly impossible to understand that they all participated without knowing each other in person..
The film offers nice views about different cities, although the story the film wants to tell is a bit flat. In my opinion, the film is a bit too long for the story it has too tell " Cities are living organisms that are the living constructs of the future". If the film would be strucured around some themes and showing how this is dealt with in various circumstances (e.g. living, traffic, leisure) I think the story would have been stronger...

but still worthwhile!

Reviewer: me#1 - - December 7, 2005
Subject: Cities in Motion
Interesting project and very well put together. I wasn't overly excited by the narration which I thought was a bit negative about cities but I greatly enjoyed the fast-forwarded images of cities in motion, set to music. Extra keywords: transit, transport, trains, highways, cars, skyscrapers, pedestrians.

Credits

camera:
julian abalos - costa mesa, ca, usa
gustavo alavedra - helsinki, finland
maliha aqeel - dubai, uae
chan kai pong & yim yan lung - hongkong, china
john dotta - san francisco, ca, usa
jeremy eliab - davao, philippines
peter handley - mumbai, india
bill heffley - san diego, ca, usa
nicolas hemmelmann - hamburg, germany
david hradetzky - santiago, chile
wu hui - shanghai, china
debra isaac, patrick keller & ryan lovelace - los angeles, ca, usa
adam joseph - melbourne, australia
paul lincoln - singapore
dino mavridis - manchester, great britain
gary mcleod - osaka, japan
michal moc & jan dienstbier - prague, czech republic
james morgan - london, great britain & berlin, germany
lauren & bret oliver - greensboro, nc, usa
eduardo pellanda - porto alegre, brazil
ariadna santini - montevideo, uruguay
linda soebagio - jakarta, indonesia
jenny stokes - adelaide, australia
ozlem unsal & gokhan denec - istanbul, turkey

music:
rj marshall, tracks tinderbox, the rising
http://www.rjmarshall.co.uk

Les Jumeaux, tracks feathercut, cobalt
Written by Klive & Nigel Humberstone
Published by Copyright Control
Licensed from the ITN Corporation
http://www.inthenursery.com

voice/text
James Attwood

idea, production, cut, text
philipp ennemoser
http://www.philipp-ennemoser.at