Yujiapu (2017)

During the winter of 2015 Karl Lemieux travelled to China with BJ Nilsen and a small camera crew to make a piece about the country's infamous ghost cities. The work presented is made with images shot in the city of Yujiapu, near Tianjin where ancestral fishing villages have been destroyed to make way for a multibillion-dollar real estate project that was to become the new financial district of the area. The entire city was developed but never finished and has been left uninhabited for over six years. The film uses the lines and frames of the buildings of Yujiapu and the lines and the frames of the film strip to create abstract elements that slowly reveal an incredible desolate urban landscape.

If you liked Yujiapu, you might also like…

94% match

Blade Runner

1982

84% match

Winchester

2018

83% match

Cloverfield

2008

80% match

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

2014

75% match

I Still See You

2018

70% match

Invaders from Mars

1953

72% match

The Crow

1994

66% match

The Matrix Revisited

2001

62% match

Hogfather

2007

61% match

Blade Runner 2049

2017

60% match

Koyaanisqatsi

1983

60% match

Dark Harvest

2023

60% match

The Stakelander

2016

60% match

Alita: Battle Angel

2019

60% match

The Woman in Black

1989

60% match

Cigarette Burns

2005

60% match

Ice Twisters

2009

60% match

RoboCop

1987

60% match

The Last Survivors

2014

60% match

As Above, So Below

2014