THE LAND OF MANY PALACES (2015)
60 minutes, HD video
In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. “The Land of Many Palaces” follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move. The film explores a process that will take shape on an enormous scale across China, since the central government announced plans to relocate 250 million farmers to cities across the nation, over the next 20 years.
Co-directed with Song Ting.
Read more about Ordos in Adam's Guardian article here
Visit the film's official website here: www.thelandofmanypalaces.com
Watch the film:
Co-directed with Song Ting.
Read more about Ordos in Adam's Guardian article here
Visit the film's official website here: www.thelandofmanypalaces.com
Watch the film:
Preview screenings:
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 2014
Peking University, 2014
Courtyard Institute, 2014
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China at the French Embassy in Beijing, 2014
Beijing Normal University, 2014
Zajia Lab, 2014
Meridian Space, 2014
Munk School of Global Affairs, 2015
University of Victoria, 2015
Screenings:
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2015
Harvard University, 2015
Rollins College, 2015
Georgia State University, 2015
Clemson University, 2015
Mercer University, 2015
University of Northern Colorado, 2015
University of Colorado at Boulder, 2015
Vibgyor International Film Festival, 2015
University of Texas at El Paso, 2015
New Mexico State University, 2015
University of Delaware, 2015
Brigham Young University, 2015
Portland State University, 2015
The Loft Cinema, Tucson, 2015
Asia Society Texas Center, 2015
Miami International Film Festival, 2015
The Roxy Cinema, Missoula, 2015
Northern Kentucky University, 2015
The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, 2015
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2015
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015
Duke University, 2015
Webster University, 2015
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2015
University of Georgia at Athens, 2015
Culture Yard, Beijing, 2015
Stanford University, 2015
Chapman University, 2015
University of San Diego, 2015
Human Rights Film Festival, San Francisco, 2015
Columbia University, 2015
Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies, 2015
University of Toronto, 2015
Beijing International Film Festival, 2015
The Neville Public Museum, 2015
Rome Independent Film Festival, 2015 *Winner "Best International Documentary"
DocAviv, 2015
Documentary Edge Film Festival, 2015
Communication University of China, 2015
Beijing Design Week, 2015
DMZ Docs, South Korea, 2015
Architecture and Design Film Festival, New York, 2015
Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Torino, 2015
International Festival of Ethnological Film, 2015
Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam, 2015
Bar Harbor Film Festival, 2015
Urban Eye Film Festival, 2015
Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam, 2015
IAFOR Documentary Film Awards, 2015 *Winner "Best Newcomer Feature Documentary"
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, 2015
Jinan University Arts College, 2015
LiveHouse Guangzhou, 2015
Guangdong University of Technology, 2015
South China School of Journalism, 2015
China Womens Film Festival, 2015
Kumu Art Museum, 2016
ReFrame Film Festival, 2016
World Film Festival, 2016
Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2016
Millenium International Documentary Film Festival, 2016
Copenhagen Architecture Festival, 2016
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, 2016
MIASTOmovie, 2016
Buenos Aires International Film Festival, 2016
American Institute of Architects Convention, 2016
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, 2016 *Winner "Best Directing"
Camera Stylo Movie Salon, Beijing, 2016
Xining First Film Festival, 2016
ArchFilm Lund, 2016
Buenos Aires Architecture and Design Film Festival, 2016
Umundu Festival Dresden, 2016
Sustainable Living Film Festival, Istanbul, 2016
Mostra Ecofalante de Cinema Ambiental, Brazil, 2016
Architecture and Design Film Festival, Seoul, 2017
The Design Academy, Brooklyn, 2017
Luxembourg Center for Architecture, 2017
Chinafrika exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, 2017
Milano Design Film Festival, 2017
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, 2017
Architecture Film Days, Zurich, 2017
Nomad Culture, Taipei and Kaohsiung, 2017
Stadtkultur International EV, Berlin, 2017
CLB, Berlin, 2017
Chinafrika exhibition, Nuremberg, 2018