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Presentation of a paper in the First conference on Film and Media in European Context, host at the Bilgi University, Istambul in 2006.
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Gemma San Cornelio EsquerdoUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Information and Communication Science Studies [Lecturer][email protected]
Live cities: film and media approaches to European
cities
Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European context conference,Bilgi University,
Istambul, june 2006
• Introduction• Fiction or documentary• City elements. Tension
between architecture and people
• City aesthetics • Models and points of view• Conclusions
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Introduction
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
It is so difficult to talk about cities because cities are, actually, more images than words.
cities are so tied up with images, so expressed so images,
that language is not adequate enough. W. Wenders
Fiction or documentary
Zelig, Woody Allen, 1983
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
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Movies:
• “Work in progress” (En construcción, J.L Guerín 2000)• “Caresses” (Carícies, Ventura Pons, 1996)• Madrid (B. M. Patino, 1987)• “People from Rome” (Gente di Roma, Ettore Scola, 2003)• Wings of Desire (W. Wenders, 1987)• Athens return to the Acropolis (T. Angelopoulos, 1985).
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Movies:
“Work in progress” (En construcción, J.L Guerín 2000)
“Caresses” (Carícies, Ventura Pons, 1996)
Madrid (B. M. Patino, 1987)
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Movies:
“People from Rome” (Gente di Roma, Ettore Scola, 2003)
Wings of Desire (W. Wenders, 1987)
Athens return to the Acropolis (T. Angelopoulos, 1985).
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
City elements. People and architecture
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
City aesthetics
• The History B&W films, buildings and cultural practices
• The War
• The Brokenpartial elements and irrational conception
• The Chaos
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Models and points of view
Two different approaches taken from Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre:
• Alois Riegl: haptical and optical• David Clarke: visuality and hapticality in cinema• Michel de Carteau: Voyeur and walker (borrowed from Baudelaire´s Voyeur and Flaneur)• Henri Lefebvre: abstract and absolute space
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Models and points of view
• Combination of visuallity and hapticallity, or the vouyeur and walker.
• Transition and from abstract to absolute space
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Models and points of view
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Models and points of view
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Models and points of view
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Conclusions:
See the chapter of the edited book resulting from the conference edited by Miyase Christensen and Nezih Erdoğan in Cambridge Scholar Press:
Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities
Thank you
