Ars Electronica Festival · 2014
Recycled
by Thomas Sauvin, Lei Lei
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2014
Thomas Sauvin and Lei Lei's “Recycled” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2014, category Computer Animation.
The following images are from negatives salvaged from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to be filtered for their silver-nitrate content. Over the years French collector Thomas Sauvin built this archive of more than half a million 35mm negatives, showing the capital and the everyday…
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