This is Shanghai

Directed by Rob Whitworth, Jt Singh · 2013

A breathless flow-motion ride through Shanghai, gliding from glittering skyscrapers and highways to backstreets and lesser-seen corners of a city transformed in a single generation.

Rob Whitworth's dizzying hyperlapse wizardry packs an entire megacity into under three exhilarating minutes.

In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. 'This is Shanghai' explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the fam

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