Wuxi — Audiovisual Short
A short audiovisual piece made for the university course Linguaggi e tecniche dell’audiovisivo (Prof. Bordin Vinicio). The work adapts the spirit of João Pombeiro’s video for Lance Skiiiwalker — Chicago: both image and music pay homage to a city—in that case moving from South Side to Downtown through civil rights, architecture, music, and multicultural life. Here the same collage-like approach is applied to Wuxi: a city well known in Asia but still unfamiliar in Europe. The film is meant to show the city’s character and to speak to Italian viewers and tourists, using a visual language rich in Chinese motifs (moodboard and treatment developed in the project dossier).
| Date | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Duration | Short form (see embedded video) |
| Format | 16:9 (HD / web delivery) |
| Role | Concept, storyboard, shooting/editing, motion & compositing |
Featured video
City portrait of Wuxi for an Italian audience; Chinese visual motifs throughout (see moodboard in course PDF). Open on YouTube. If you see Error 153, use that link or test on the published HTTPS site (not file://).
Inspiration
The project explicitly references João Pombeiro’s treatment of Lance Skiiiwalker — Chicago: a fast, collage-like journey through a city’s identity. The Wuxi piece translates that method—panorama, history, food, culture, infrastructure, and return to the opening view—into local imagery and Chinese visual elements, as laid out in the moodboard and multi-scene storyboard in the PDF dossier.
Narrative structure (from storyboard)
The edit follows the scene breakdown prepared for the course:
- Scenes 1–2: Panoramic illustration; introduction to the city’s history.
- Scenes 4–5: Humanities thread; local cuisine and typical dishes.
- Scenes 6–7: Cultural section; urban infrastructure.
- Scenes 8–9: Urban infrastructure; transition.
- Scenes 10–11: Video mixing; return to the opening panorama.
Scene numbering follows the submitted storyboard sheets; add still frames to the gallery below when you export key frames from the timeline.
Resources
Reference: Lance Skiiiwalker — Chicago (dir. João Pombeiro, Vimeo)