Are Emigholz's films on DVD? It would have to be PAL (which is fine with
me), since none are available in the U.S.
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Subject: Re: film and architecture
Have you looked at the films of Heinz Emigholz?
Nicky Hamlyn.
On 10 Aug 2007, at 13:53, Aristotelis wrote:
> You are so right about this and i think Antonioni had studied
> architecture before becoming a film maker. What i am trying to establish
> is the importance that architects should have in films not only as set
> designers but also by using architectural theories and hopes. Being
> myself an architectural studient i am also interested on how this medium
> can help designers express their utopias and film be considered by them a
> created / built building. I am sorry for not being able to define better
> what i am searching for, but thats the magic of it.
> As for dogville all though i found it to be highly entertaining i think
> that it uses more the theatrical element than the architectural. Space
> used (or maybe not used) like that has previously been seen in theatrical
> plays and i believe those are its references. Its absence mostly points
> out the dramatic essence of the plot.
> I haven't found those films yet but i am searching for them. Thanks
> agoain for your time
>
>> Still not really sure what the nature of the theoretical connection you
>> are looking for is though... There are several obvious examples in
>> Sci-Fi, Horror and Action films where the building could be considered
>> the protagonist of the piece... or at least protagonist by proxy. Have
>> you watched 'Brutality in Stone' or 'London' which I mentioned
>> previously on this thread?
>>
>> Also J.G Ballard's novel "High Rise" is currently in production.
>> ......................................................................
>> ...................................
>>
>> Perhaps this has already been pointed out, or it misses your point, but
>> I would suggest that Antonioni comes as close as anyone to the condition
>> of architecture as protagonist. In almost all of the films from the late
>> fifties and early sixties, with Eclipse and Red Desert being the
>> outstanding examples. It depends on what one means by protagonist. It's
>> hardly a new observation that many scenes in those films are "about" the
>> architectural surround, not the story that unfolds within it. Rather,
>> one can't separate the architecture from the other protagonists'
>> subjectivity. The architecture is an objective correlative. Apart from
>> ghost stories, I can't think of a more consistent conflation of
>> architecture/narrative in film history.
>
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