BABEL

by Hendrick Dusollier
15’, France, 2010

The protagonist leaves his village in the Celestial Mountains to go to Shanghai and discovers that in the frenetic metropolis other, brick, mountains rise like a challenge in the sky. Alienated from nature, the man seems lost in an artificial world that is hostile to him. This short film is an allegory of modern China with its unstoppable and uncontrollable transformation from a rural to an industrial civilization.
 

Hendrick Dusollier In his films, Hendrick Dusollier mixes real images in virtual 3D spaces. With his first short, Obras, he won more than 30 international awards and was nominated for the 2006 Césars. With his production company, Studio Hdk, he makes innovative projects using 3D technology. Since 2005, over numerous trips, he has devoted himself to filming the transformation of Chinese society. Babel is the first audiovisual product of this work.