Shibuya culture PROJECT

Beijing Olympic Games kicks off from finally August 8. Opening ceremony is scheduled to begin from the National Stadium 8 8:00 pm at (nicknamed "bird's nest") (Japan time 21:08).

"Bird's nest" that has been newly constructed towards this time of the Olympic Games, which Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, which was victorious in the competition from the end of 2002 was designed.
Towards the Beijing Olympics, two Swiss is the architect, the monument even after the Olympic Games continue to function in Beijing ..., challenged in the policy of "bird's nest". From August 2Euro SpaceAnd in published『鳥の巣−北京のヘルツォーク＆ド・ムーロン』Is, "bird's nest" of this time, is a documentary that drew up to be ready as actually building since it was chosen in competition. Architect and two European of the "common sense", how impressive this work that values ​​the auspicious Chinese national "public opinion" collide many times. Two completely different cultures is, before the going to actually rapidly To complete "Bird's Nest", the exchange that will shorten the relationship gradually while compromise with each other, interesting thrilling.

Also, if this is south about 8 km from the "bird's nest", arrive at Tiananmen Square. "Tiananmen", the Monument to the People's Heroes, Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, the Great Hall of the People, the world's largest open space, including the National Museum of China, since its development in 1954, has become an important stage of national events and history. In particular, "Tiananmen incident" that occurred in 1989, student protesters who demanded the democratization rallying to Tiananmen underwent armed repression by the "People's Liberation Army" of the Communist Party leadership that had came to power at the time the State it is known as the incident. Number of deaths in this incident, which is also said to be 10,000 people with 300 people, many of the citizens who complained of a time of democratization been arrested, a number of students, intellectuals went into exile.Theatre Image ForumIn, in China have been taboo even today the "Tiananmen incident", China's film history's first works were handled from the student side"Tiananmen, Lovers"There's in public. This film screenings in China is undergoing a ban from the government. Remembering that the conflict on the spirit of the students and the government has evolved into the use of force, "student movement" is the 1960s was a thriving, are also held Tokyo Olympic Games in exactly the same time, the similarities with Japan less Absent.

Well, it is also at the Image Forum, published on The Late Show from July 12"Landscape with now in here."Is a documentary that Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is going to capture the manner in which to shoot the Three Gorges Dam and Shanghai. Three Gorges Dam, the name of the concrete dam the flood suppression, power supply and water transportation improvements are built in the Three Gorges of the mid-China and the Yangtze River basin is advanced as a primary objective. Construction of this dam, since economic liberalization, is a major project that symbolizes the great powers, China has undergone rapid changes. The city to sink into this gorge dam, but was "Still Life" is also a masterpiece painted through the people who work at the construction site of the dam while born and raised in the city, this time of work, the strain of industrial development faced by the gorge dam, convey through the overwhelmingly vast "contaminated" landscape. However, this work is excellent, the terms of industry VS not confined to raise one-sided problem of nature, in other words the contaminated landscape, lies precisely in the fact that overwhelmingly "beautiful". Mountain of vast to spread industrial waste, before the water surface of the river was dyed in red, nothing but we can not only be horror.

Finally, also at the Image Forum (how much stunning selection of Image Forum!), From August 23"Little red flower"There are screenings. This work, from a child's point of view of the four-year-old attending the Beijing boarding kindergarten, ask the way of uniform education system. Of course, the problem of whether we are involved in intimate how much the personality of children, would be in trouble of Japan's education as well as China only. Other, communicate widely the kung fu of the charm is a traditional Chinese martial arts"Kung Fu Panda""Kung Fu Dunk! ", Convey the work, beauty and spiritual of China began in effectiveness tea competition Zong era "闘茶""闘茶", The Chinese emperor era to the stage, telling the Asian superpower and China of Orientalism from the Western point of view"Mummy 3 cursed emperor of the treasure."Such as, movies convey the spirit, history, landscape and tradition of China in Shibuya is really a lot of screenings in. The Beijing Bubbly in Olympic, knowing more deeply more widely, watching differently surely homeopathic is not the difference in the experience.
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