Restoring Historic Jeddah - Arabic version

In the modern period, there has scarcely been a single pilgrim to Mecca from overseas who has not made a stop-over at Jeddah—an important port, a place of recuperation, the best place to buy souvenirs and the essentials, both personal and religious, one will need in the course of the Hajj.

squint/operas film for the redevelopment of Jeddah Central District describes a project of six million square metres, the largest city centre project in the Arab world. The narrative explains the historical importance of the city and makes the case for a sympathetic development, aiming to revitalise the citys architectural and social inheritance whilst protecting its utterly unique character.

Archive photographs and pictorial representations of the city animated by subtly shifting two-dimensional planes give way to a long, and thoroughly impossible, tracking shot in which the viewers gaze seems to be the cause of a spectacular regeneration: dilapidated buildings are renovated, roads healed, trees and shades descend to provide comfort in public spaces.

The viewer is ushered through the project by points of focus serving the films narrative and explanatory elements. A GPS map in a taxi-boat shows an image of the future; an architects model is suddenly scaled to a size where a businessman can open the door of his paper car to be driven into a completed and entirely populated city.

squint/operas trademarks of combining the live and the computer-generated, telling and frequently amusing details and narrative coherence are all present.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Jeddah
• squint
• opera
• animation
• film
• 3d
• architecture

[yarub1]

خرط بخرط! للئسف الشديد حسب خبرتي ببلدي الغالية لا أصدق أي شي حتى يتم أفتتاحة. أبسط مثال مشروع جزر البندقية!

[dahlawi]

لما يبلطوا ألبحر. أحلام في أحلام.

[MBashraheel]

يا اخي كل الخير من اللي مسميهم طرش بحر

رغم أني طرش بر و جاي من الجنوب العربي

الا ان الواجهة التاريخية اللي مطلوب تطويرها

تحمل أنفاس طرش البحر اللي مو عاجبين أحد

تجار جدة .. المغلوب على أمرهم

[arlingo]

Meta bas?

[groovyjedda]

آه على جدة لو سلمت من أيادي الحرامية

[mn111mn1]

راح يلطشونها طرش البحر ويسكنون في اوروبا مثل وزير النفط احمد زكي يماني .. ويخلون جدة خراب

[AM0o0NA]

هههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه­هههههههههههه

صدقناكم

[fankaa9]

When the sail goas BOOM! whatch u gonna do ? make a make moooooooooo mother Fucking rom

[hudab427]

I know that our King Abdullah wants to do a lot for our kingdom and the people. I hope our executives will share the same and stats to do something for the people of this kngdom.

[Amoola111Gamoora]

الله.. والله يا ريت مرة حلو الوضع يسير :) يا ريــــــــــــــــــــــت