"A hypervideo experiment"
in which each user become a broadcaster
context
Since its independence in 1962, the people of Burma has been living under the oppression of a dictatorship and both the democratic opposition and the ethnic minorities have been crushed by constant repression.
The 1988 protests have been suppressed in blood, and many monks paid the saffron revolution of 2007 with their lives. On top of this, the disastrous management of the crisis caused by hurricane Nargis that struck the country in may of 2008 – killing 100 000 Burmese – deprived over a million victims of the disaster from international relief up to this day.
Symbol of the opposition against the regime, Aung San Suu Kyi, awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace, has been constantly hassled by the authorities since the 1990’s. The junta has spent the last 40 years cut of from the rest of the world, developing an extreme paranoia and a great propensity towards the irrational. The close entourage of the generals now counts astrologists, numerologists and magicians, who are consulted – and systematically followed – before every major decision is made: the country’s change of name, the relocation of the capital, or major overhaul of the currency, agriculture, traffic management, repression. Today, the country lives according to the rhythm of the most absurd decisions – and as always, the people is paying the price for such an insanity.
the author
Tristan Mendès-France, 39.
Activist blogger, multimedia author, he teaches the new digital cultures at CELSA and Paris Diderot University
Egoblog.netblogtrotters.fr
"Docteur La Mort"
A secret project by the South African government under the Apartheid was aiming at directing a bio-chemical offensive against the black population in the 80’/90’s
"La Maladie n°9"
The untold story of an anti-Semitic conspiracy in the 1920’s, devised in the Senate, accusing the Jews of carrying a mysterious disease
• Gueule d’ange, about the former Argentinean torturer Alfredo Asti, april 2003, Ed. Favre
• Docteur la Mort, investigating governmental bio-terrorism in South Africa, may 2002, ed. Favre
• Une tradition de la haine, figures autour de l’extrême droite, 1999, ed. Paris-Méditerrannée.
the director
Gaël Bordier, 39
After being assistant director on many commercials, fictions and documentaries (France2, France3, France5, Arte, Canal+) from 1995 to 1999, he was for 5 years TV director for the TV5 show 24h en direct de…, covering 25 destinations (Hanoï, Rio, New-York, Sanaa, Djakarta, Bamako, Vancouver,…).
In 2004, he became the director for several TV5 shows, like CQFV and Conversations Privées.
Today, he directs documentaries (Sur la route, 52mn), commercials (Cameroun, Secours Populaire, Bouygues, Cap Gemini,…) et TV shows : Talk de Paris, special shows for France24, V6, a weekly 26mn show for ABMoteurs, L’Invité for TV5 Monde. He also directed feature films : Le Royaume des Rapiats (2001) and Le Making-Of (currently in production).
the illustrator
Antoine Errasti, 30
A Penninghen graduate, Antoine Errasti was Art Director for the magazine TOC (2006-2007) then manager of the agency TOCmedias. He signed the art direction and the animations for the movie Happy World.
the editor
Miguel Escobar, 50
Miguel has been editing documentaries for 15 years, for Envoyé Spécial and Des Racines et des Ailes. He is senior editor on Happy World, and was assisted in this absurd challenge by Julie Lagadec, Frédéric Bonnet et Brice Beuzelin.
the production
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Les terres imaginées
by Paul Guidal & Wilson dos Santos -
Nuit gravement à la santé
by Vincent Lorca -
Good morning Bagdad
by Mehdi Benchelah pour Canal + -
Democratie
by Guillaume Viry
Documentaries
Les terres imaginées
Animation movie, 60’, for Canal +, by Paul Guidal and Wilson dos Santos, script Guillaume Duprat and Pierre Cattan, based on the book Les terres imaginées – broadcasted on december 2010
Happy World: Burma,
the dictatorship of the absurd
Documentary, 52’ by Gaël Bordier, with the support of Planète. Broadcasted on 2011
Orson Welles Award for Best Documentary at the 2010 California Film Festival
Sur la route
Documentary, 52’, by Gaël Bordier for TV5MONDE – 2005
Good morning Bagdad
Reportage, 13’, by Mehdi Benchelah for Canal + – 2004
Fortes têtes
Documentary, 52’, by Rémi Sautet for Thalassa(co-production Médiane Films) for FRANCE3 – 2003
Emissions
V6 (26’, weekly, NT1 – 2008/10)
Cinémag (13’, weekly, TLT – 2004/05)
C.Q.F.V. (26’, bi-monthly, TV5MONDE – 2003)
Fiction Short MoviesNuit gravement à la santé
Short movie, 6’30’’ in 35mm by Vincent Lorca
(Festival de Valenciennes Award)
Démocratie
Short movie, 7’30’’ in 35mm by Guillaume Viry
(FIPA, Festival de Grasse)
Douce errance
Short movie, 6’30’’ by Emmanuelle Millet
Corporate filmsBouygues Télécom, Cap Gemini, Secours populaire, République du Cameroun,République de Côte d’Ivoire, EDF, Danone, Académie des César, Chaumet Paris…
ShowsBilco’s One Man Show – 2007
(Blancs Manteaux)
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Prison valley
http://prisonvalley.arte.tv/
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Havana Miami
http://havana-miami.arte.tv/
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Gaza Sderot
http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/
A studio for multimedia creation : specialized in interface design for media websites :
Arte.tv, Rue89, Slate, Les Inrocks, Têtu, France Inter, France Musique, France Bleu, France Info, Glamour, Vogue...
A interactive production company, specialized in webdocumentaries :
- Prison Valley (2010)
World Press Photo 2011, first prize of the interactive category for the multimedia contest.
Best webdocumentary 2010 Visa pour l’Image,
Italia Award,
Award for Best Crossmedia Doc at Bellaria Festival,
nominated for the Europa Awards, nominated in Sheffield
- Havana-Miami (2010)
- Gaza Sderot (2009)
Nominated at the Emmy Awards, Europa Award 2008, Nuit des Médias Award 2009, winner at BANF, winner at Seoulc
- Thanatorama (2007)
Grand Prix at Flash Festival 2007
- La cité des mortes (2006)
Clic d’Or 2006
the program
Happy World: Burma, the dictatorship of the absurd
Happy World is a hypervideo experiment co-produced by Cinquième Etage Production and Upian.com
The result is a 30 mn documentary, available both in english and french original audio, directed and edited specifically for the Internet, presented in a HTML5 shell that displays dynamic data and contextual information to enrich the video.
The film is available under the Creative Commons License, giving each user the opportunity to broadcast it (taking an unbranded version of the program and making it available to its own audience), but also to download it.
contact
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they talk about us
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Boing Boing
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Atelier des médias
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WEBDOCU
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OWNI
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Common Dreams
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Osocio
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Web Television Observer
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France Info
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Standblog
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terraeco.net
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Waging Nonviolence
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Bonne nouvelle
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Internazionale
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The next web
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insitaction
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Routard
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Geekofeminin
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pcinpact
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lesinfos.com
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movements.org
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3wdoc
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France Inter
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Slate
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la-Croix
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National Geographic
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Taiwan Mag
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Flattr Blog
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L'oeil de links
Credits
HAPPY WORLD BURMA, A DICTATORSHIP OF THE ABSURD
IT'S A DOCUMENTARY FILM
DIRECTED BY
GAËL BORDIER
BASED ON A ORIGINAL IDEA BY
TRISTAN MENDÈS FRANCE
PRODUCED BY PIERRE CATTAN
EDITING
MIGUEL ESCOBAR
JULIE LAGADEC
FRÉDÉRIC BONNET
GRAPHIC DESIGN & ANIMATION
ANTOINE ERRASTI
CALIBRATION
GUILLAUME FAURE
SOUND DESIGN
CHARLES D’OIRON
MIXING
GEOFFROY CANTOU-CARRASSOUMET
TRANSLATION
TANYA REZNICHENKO
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
JESSICA LAVENIR
PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR
ANNIE BOUVIER ET KIKI LAMBERT
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF PLANÈTE
IT'S A HYPERVIDEO EXPERIENCE
PRODUCTION
ALEXANDRE BRACHET
GREGORY TROWBRIDGE
MARGAUX MISSIKA
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
NICOLAS DE SAINT MELEUC
COPYWRITING
ERIC DRIER
ART DIRECTION
JÉROME GONÇALVÈS
with the support of
ANGELIQUE BIDAULT
MATHIEU CHAPUIS
DEVELOPMENT
NICOLAS MENET
with the support of
MAXIME QUINTARD
IT'S A CENSURATOR
CONCEPTION
UPIAN'S HAPPY TEAM
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANIMATION
JÉROME GONÇALVÈS
featuring
ANTOINE ERRASTI
DEVELOPMENT
FABIEN MONCHATRE
NICOLAS MENET
with the support of
MAXIME QUINTARD
SOUND DESIGN
THOMAS COHEN
IT'S NAYPYIDAW PARANO
INVESTIGATION
CONCETTA SANGRIGOLI
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANIMATION
JÉROME GONÇALVÈS
HAPPY THANKS
LE MONDE
SYLVIE CHAYETTE
ERIC DEDIER
SYLVIE KAUFMANN
BORIS RAZON
COURRIER INTERNATIONAL
OLIVIER BRAS
CLAUDE LEBLANC
BASTIEN PIOT
OWNI
SABINE BLANC
GUILLAUME LEDIT
OPHELIA NOOR
OLIVIER TESQUET
NICOLAS VOISIN
TYPHON
ARNAUD LAVRARD
JULES VO-DINH
AND ALSO
PLANÈTE
FRANCK APPIETTO
DAVID RICHARD
MARC EYCHENNE
CONCETTA SANGRIGOLI
SANDRA ALBERTOLLI
MIREN PRADIER
OLIVIER STROH
ANNA PIERRE
SYLVIE AND THÉO GRIMMEISEN
OUR ANONYMOUS BURMESE DISSIDENT
ADDITIONAL THANK YOU'S
FRED BOURGEAIS
SÉBASTIEN BROTHIER
LAURENT CAIROLI
GREG CORSARO
DAVID DESPRÈS
THOMAS DEYRIÈS
FRANCK DUVAL
CHLOÉ GENCE
OLIVIER HOFFSCHIR
KARIM MOREAU
FABIEN STREIT
