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look at this http://www.cinefacts.de/news/news.php?newsid=7783 >----Messaggio originale---- >Dal: [log in to unmask] >Data: 10/08/2007 18.33 >A: <[log in to unmask]> >Ogg: Re: film and architecture > >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. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Nicholas Hamlyn" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:33 AM >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. >> >> Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. >> Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion >> Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message >> you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy >> to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: >> [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy >> journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: >> [log in to unmask] ** >* >* >Film-Philosophy salon >After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are >replying to. >To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: >[log in to unmask] >Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html >For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. >* >Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com >Contact: [log in to unmask] >** > >* >* >Film-Philosophy salon >After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. >To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] uk. >Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html >For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. >* >Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com >Contact: [log in to unmask] >** > * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **