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“Ekümenopolis: City Without Limits” (a Documentary Film About Istanbul )

June 6, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"If cities are a reflection of the society, what can we say about ourselves by looking at Istanbul? What kind of city are we leaving behind for future … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, movies, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

March 12, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, movies, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird web

Chris Marker’s Junkopia

August 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Passed away the last month, Chris Marker will be mostly remembered for his 1962 film La Jetée, a post-apocalyptic tale of time travels constructed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: movies, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, world weird web

About Metropolis

August 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, literature, magazines, movies, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)

August 9, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"On the 5th of september 2001, the taliban confiscated thousands of reels of film from the Afghan Film Archive and burned them on the outskirts of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, movies, politics, psychogeographies, social, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]

August 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, literature, movies, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, Sounds, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Grand Finale, [all 135 Space Shuttle Launches]

July 8, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

All 135 Space Shuttle launches, played simultaneously, including, for morbid viewers, the "major malfunction" one (2nd row, 6th video from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: movies, past futures, Technology, world weird web

Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario

April 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Back to Socks from Rome and the lecture! We remember, from our time as students at the architecture school, a typical lecture in "Descriptive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, movies, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles

A Consumerist Landscape

March 18, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

From "Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle", 1967 Jean-Luc Godard) Excerpts from Wikipedia: The film does not tell a story so much as a present … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, movies, past futures, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, visions

Chris Marker’s La Jetée Study Guide

February 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

In the week that will see two landmark Marker's movies out on Blu-ray, Criterion also shares this interesting study guide for junior and senior high … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: magazines, movies, past futures

Ruins of the abyss

October 26, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ethel Baraona, whose always interesting articles and links we particularly missed during these two weeks of no-internet, points towards this post on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, industrial design, land art, movies, past futures, Technology

“Images drifting into the distance”, a cycle of conferences, debates, meetings, by Benoit Peeters

September 27, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Centre Pompidou program of evenings during the last three months of this year is particularly rich (Anri Sala, Kusama, Matali Crasset among … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, Art-2, comics, illustrations, literature, movies, photography, Technology, visions, world weird web

“Smithson and Serra: beyond modernism” documentary

September 12, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

An out-of-circulation documentary about the work of Richard Serra and Robert Smithson, produced in the UK for television. Streamable and downloadable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, land art, movies

Bullit: chase scene analytical drawing

September 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

From: The Paper City. With Hannes Frykholm. Click to zoom: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, movies, urban chronicles

Phase IV, (1974) the only Saul Bass feature film

August 18, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

From Wikipedia: Due to some unknown cosmic event, listed in "phases," ants have undergone rapid evolution and developed a hive mind. A scientific … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: movies, past futures, social, Technology, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

The Star Wars blueprints

July 12, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A new, inaccessible (500$) book is out: Star Wars: the Blueprints, containing over 500 photographs, illustrations and details of all the objects, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, industrial design, movies, past futures, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions

Look-a-like = Otto Wagner Vs. Star Wars

May 30, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Otto Wagner’s 1880 design for the central offices of the Vienna Giro und Kassenverein competition versus designer Ralph McQuarrie Millennium Falcon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, movies, pills

Sergei Eisenstein, sequences diagrams for Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potëmkin.

April 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Alexander Nevsky and Battleship Potëmkin. More on Eisenstein. More on the soviet "montage" theory. Samantha Krukowski's Alchemical Frames. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: form of form, information graphics, movies

Don’t do this at work – 24

March 3, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

There are movies. There are objects in movies. There are games which let you guess which classic movie a particular object is from, among more than 70 … [Read more...]

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Le quattro volte (The four times), by Michelangelo Frammartino

February 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Le quattro volte on IMDB, As part of the series "The SRF for the Directors' Fortnight", Licia Eminenti, director and member of the SRF, introduces … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: land art, movies, world weird web

“Valerie and her week of wonders”, a film in images

January 26, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

1970's Czech surrealist/horror tale of a "girl getting her period", Valerie and her week of wonders is a strange film where love, fear, sex and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sounds Tagged With: movies, Sounds

The sound of Noise

January 25, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A new Swedish (crime) movie, where music is literally a synchronization of noise(s). Nice musical performances! By the way: while watching this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: movies, noise, sound, world weird web

Kraftwerk and the electronic revolution

January 8, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is the kind of documentary that blows me away. the other 18 parts are here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sounds Tagged With: movies, Sounds, world weird web

WHITE DOG (1981)

December 17, 2010 by Pasquale La Forgia 6 Comments

"A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people." This is Imdb summary and I couldn't agree more. White Dog is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: movies

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