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5’45
minutes, colour, 5.1 Dolby surround sound
shot on Hi-Definition video at Tian Tan Park, Beijing
mastered on Digi-Betacam (stereo) and DVD (5.1)
Producer: Feng Yan
Video and sound editor: Imogen Stidworthy
5.1 editor: Tim Lambert
Online editor: Donny Boocock
Camera: Feng Yan
Camera assistant: Xiao Cai
Sound recordists: Chen Chao, Imogen Stidworthy
Sound assistant: Din Yu Fu
Interpretor: Randi Ren
Every morning a flood of
people passes through the gates of Tian Tan Park, Beijing. 7 AM
focuses on their morning exercises and the social and acoustic space
they generate. Figures and small groups scattered amongst the trees fill
the park with the percussive sounds of slapping, sweeping limbs, feet
brushing grass into geometric figures, the smack of a sand-filled bag
against a back or a back against a tree trunk. Each exercise is
sustained for at least five minutes and up to two hours. Time and
distance are measured out and described by hundreds of simultaneous
rhythms, which create a spatial, sonic and bodily language. 7 AM
approaches this social landscape as a language between sight and sound. |
