{"id":2217,"date":"2021-09-16T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:23:22","slug":"a-pile-of-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"A Pile Of Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Premiere of A Pile of Ghosts<\/strong>, 70 Min., 2021 at the AFFR Architectural Filmfestival Rotterdam 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is real and what isn\u2019t in a replicated city? Ella Raidel made this penetrating ghost-town film in contemporary China, interweaving actors and ordinary people, sets, and footage of the city. Aren\u2019t the real estate agents, construction workers, and investors simply playing a game? What remains of reality in a world dominated by the vagaries of capitalism? A Pile of Ghosts is a mysterious puzzle where the dividing line between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. In this strange world, subjected to speculation, it actually doesn\u2019t seem to matter anymore. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.affr.nl\/en\/films\/a-pile-of-ghosts\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.affr.nl\/en\/films\/a-pile-of-ghosts\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFFR 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/605584206\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Film &#8211; City &#8211; Architecture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AFFR explores the relationship between film, cities, and architecture by programming and screening architecture films and by organizing introductions and debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AF<a href=\"https:\/\/www.affr.nl\/en\/festival-2021-en\/theme-affr-2021more-than-houses\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.affr.nl\/en\/festival-2021-en\/theme-affr-2021more-than-houses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FR 2021 Theme: More than Houses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Premiere of A Pile of Ghosts, 70 Min., 2021 at the AFFR Architectural Filmfestival Rotterdam 2021 What is real and what isn\u2019t in a replicated city? Ella Raidel made this penetrating ghost-town film in contemporary China, interweaving actors and ordinary people, sets, and footage of the city. Aren\u2019t the real estate agents, construction workers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raidel_Pileofghosts2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4JnJ4-zL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}