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You may be interested in a forthcoming conference on film, architecture and urban space - see link below http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/cityinfilm/conf2008.html Aristotelis wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > I am new to this service but i enjoy the conversations very much. I am > an architecture studient really interested in film theories and I am > planning my thesis project on film and architecture. I would be glad > if anyone could give me any opinions or bibliography suggestions or > any kind of comment concerning this matter. I have browsed the > archives and there isnt a prior conversation concerning the connection > between architecture and cinema. > > This is my subject more or less. Thank you for your time. > > The film world is a human creation which has turned into an > inseparable piece of our everyday life, whether it is about > entertainment, whether it concerns art or whether it is because it > defies reality. The film spectator takes the challenge of replacing > the memory of his true image and let himself to visual and acoustic > stimulations which lead his mind in thoughts and mental states which > he would never achieve due to his natural reality. Film is clearly a > mental experience, a mind game. The film world exists in between the > vision of the creator, the possible interpretations of the spectator > and in the way it is being presented from the medium of film. From > Eisenstein to Deleuze and from Godard to Arnheim, much have been said > during the effort to define that new reality and its' rules. The facts > are that everyday we see its' results in the constant massive film > production, at the movie theatres and in the way we evolve using the > new data. The question remains that while a new world is being created > architecture still isn't participating as it should as a creative > force except of some partial, personal initiatives. > > Main characteristic of the film world is that it's being designed from > scratch and after being constructed it is being let on the hands of > the viewer to transform it. It is of special importance the way this > new space will be designed in order to be pictured according to chosen > restrictions, comes from people with architectural knowledge. But > architecture shouldn't be restrained to that point. It is being > noticed that for several years now, materialized buildings are often > projected through visualizations of the constructions. The cause of > this of course comes of the variety of architectural work and the > short time the user might have to notice it. Though many times, spaces > are being designed not to be populated by humans but just to be > photographed and offer to people those pictures. > > While the modern man functions through those images, visualizing > architecture is not a mistake. But since film exists, than even if the > aim is visualization, it can still be inhabited. A script, a story > immediately gears the walls with a plot and the floors with action and > whole buildings live. But the most important is the fact that in that > way they can communicate better with the spectator, experience those > spaces as real and not solely as visualization. Without ever > suggesting a replacement of real life or constructed architecture, it > is a completion of peoples' constant need for images with more > definitive space presentation. Such a conscious use of architecture > design inevitably will force the art of cinema to new paths. Not just > a presentation of a story for entertainment but parallel creation of a > spatial world, equally interesting to the plot. This conjunction will > naturally be successful not when films are created from architects for > architects but from cinematographers and concern the majority of the > spectators. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Building a website is a piece of cake. > Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48251/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=PASSPORTPLUS> > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' > please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. 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