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type="cite">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.
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