{"id":1027,"date":"2016-04-12T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2018-04-07T04:45:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T04:45:02","slug":"doublehappiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Double Happiness in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double Happiness, 74 Min., DCP, (Subtitles available: german, english, chinese)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2014><\/strong> \u201eStylistically, Double Happiness is constructed as an impressionistic collage, incorporating traditional talking-head interviews with stunningly shot imagery of both Hallstatts as well as other areas of China, and musical interludes that seem to wryly imitate karaoke videos. Raidel has created, a thoughtful, diverting work as playful as it is provocative.\u201c
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\u2014><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201eThis surreal, exquisitely framed documentary looks at the construction of a near-exact replica of a scenic Austrian town\u2014cobblestone by cobblestone\u2014in an undeveloped Chinese tract of land. In a style both entrancing and playful, the film questions the difference between real and imagined, model and reality, raising thought-provoking questions about the nature of authenticity and happiness. Features insightful interviews with urban planners, designers, and trailblazing Beijing architect Ma Yansong.\u201c Anthony Kaufman\/Chicago International Filmfestival<\/p>\n

\u2014><\/strong>\u00a0“A wild, almost surreal doc”, Anthony Kaufman\/Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201eNear Huizhou, China, stands a replica of the idyllic mountain village of Hallstatt, Austria\u2014a staging ground for provocative questions about tradition and innovation, copying and creativity, and contemporary China\u2019s gaze toward the West. As Western countries increasingly imported cheap Chinese commodities, the economic giant began to construct an idealized European past into a vast simulacrum of luxury playgrounds for the rich. In the last two decades, China has observed an explosion in theme parks meant to both miniaturize the landscape of China and represent the entirety of the world. But these pronounced locations are just a symptom of a much larger transformation of territory. A television journalist ponders, \u201cperhaps in ten years we won\u2019t be eligible to call ourselves Chinese anymore,\u201d as the landscape increasingly takes on the character of Western nations. Ella Raidel\u2019s refreshingly thoughtful and sumptuously photographed essay film offers an unusual mirror to the West through the lens of contemporary China.\u201c Eli Horwatt\/Hot Docs Toronto 2015
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\u2014><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201eElla Raidel overlaps what was carved by time over what money quickly erected, con-fusing both cities in a virtuous way, and tempting the limits in which the idyllic turns into a nightmare, and reality becomes pure simulation.\u201c BAFICI 2015<\/p>\n

\u2014><\/strong>\u00a0 You never quite known if what you are seeing is \u201areal\u2018 in its disorienting, but extremely precise arrangement of location footage and miniature models, as well as of TV shows and interviews with Chinese architects and urban planners. But is authenticity a part of a present, where the world\u2019s new economic superpower is in the process of redefining itself and its history? From a strange place between an imported idea of a romantic past that never way, and an uncertain future in the name of unbridled capitalism, Chinese engineers are in the process of creating a bubble of security, where everything is completely under control \u2013 and where only the richest of the rich can afford to live. CPH:DOX* 2014<\/p>\n

\u2014><\/strong>\u00a0 Wo sind wir, wenn eine h\u00fcbsche Chinesin im Dirndl den Mond ansingt: \u201eMeine Zuneigung ist echt\u201c? Offenbar in einem feuchten kapitalistischen Traum. Denn Hallstatt\/China ist ein luxuri\u00f6ses Investmentprojekt und nur ein Nebenprodukt des gigantischen Baubooms. Wo bleiben \u201ewir\u201c und unsere Kultur dabei, fragen chinesische Architekten und Stadtplaner. Der Film entdeckt ein an sich zweifelndes China und verweist zugleich mit seiner clever verschachtelten Erz\u00e4hlstruktur ironisch auf \u201euns\u201c Europ\u00e4er zur\u00fcck. Auch die Identit\u00e4tskrise verdoppelt sich. Lars Meyer\/Dok Leipzig 2014<\/p>\n

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