Gemma San Cornelio Esquerdo Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Information and Communication Science Studies [Lecturer] gsan_cornelio@uoc.edu 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

Fiction or documentary

City elements. Tension between architecture and people

City aesthetics

Models and points of view

Conclusions

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

Introduction

Fiction or documentary Zelig, Woody Allen, 1983 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) “ 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)

“ People from Rome” ( Gente di Roma , Ettore Scola, 2003)

Wings of Desire (W. Wenders, 1987)

Athens return to the Acropolis (T. Angelopoulos, 1985).

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 Broken partial elements and irrational conception The Chaos Live cities: film and media approaches to European cities

The History

B&W films, buildings and cultural practices

The War

The Broken

partial elements and irrational conception

The Chaos

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

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

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

Combination of visuallity and hapticallity, or the vouyeur and walker.

Transition and from abstract to absolute space

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