Wednesday 16 July 2014 @ 12:30PM
Wednesday 10 September 2014 @ 12:30PM _ to be confirmed _ stay tuned
WEEK [06] CITY PROJECTIONS: MELBOURNE & PARIS MODERN IN 1924
Film: The Bridge Project by Delia Teschendoff & Helen Sutton 2011 (6mins)
Film: L’Inhumaine by Marcel L’Herbier 1924 (90mins)
Guest speaker: TBA
Wednesday 09 July 2014 @ 12.30PM
Wednesday 03 September 2014 @ 12.30PM _ to be confirmed _ stay tuned
A SHORT ARCHITECTURAL FILM PROGRAM WEEK [05]: THE CITY & THE SUBURB SPOTSWOOD [FILMS: HARVEY KRUMPET / CITY: MELBOURNE]
Guest speaker: TBA
The Suburb, a modern phenomenon, the context in which this film is set. The attention to detail of the urban fabric in this Oscar wining claymation is telling. HARVEY KRUMPET…Spotswood in detail…Harvey’s life told…
Wednesday 2014 @ 12:30pm / MADA Gallery Building G Caulfield Monash University
Film: Harvey Krumpet by Adam Elliot 2003 (23mins)
Wednesday 02 July 2014 @ 12:30PM
A SHORT ARCHITECTURAL FILM PROGRAM
WEEK [04]: CARLTON & THE FRENCH NEW WAVE / LOOKING BACKWARDS & FORWARDS
[FILMS: The Girl Friends, Secondskin, Subterranea & 57 Spring Street / CITY: Melbourne]
Guest speaker: Louise Mackenzie
In the late 1960s and early 70s in Carlton, Melbourne, there was a bunch of films being made that were unashamedly frenchnewwaveques…made cheaply mostly by students this body work seeded the renaissance of the Australian film industry. THE GIRL FRIENDS being made in the nineteen sixties indicates, in looking at Carlton today, the massive changes that have taken place since and where taking place at the time the film was made. The next three films are from The Cinecity Project and suggest change as well – places lived in, some abandoned and some regained, some with adjusted uses, some enabling ways of life lived, some thinking back and moving on.
THE GIRL FRIENDS (1968) Carlton, Melbourne…commission flats…terrace houses…the nineteen sixties _“These boots were made for Walking”… and dancing…
SECONDSKIN (2009) Once was home…home again
SUBTERRANEA (2010) Car parks…as art spaces…as film space as art
57 SPRING STREET (2013) Cinematic long section of a life in place in time
Wednesday 02 July 2014 @ 12.30pm / MADA Gallery Building G Caulfield Monash University
Film: The Girl Friends by Peter Elliot 1968 (25mins)
Film: Cinecity: Secondskin by Georgia Forbes & Lisha Corcoran 2009 (1mins)
Film: Cinecity: Subterranea By Lindy Fetherston 2010 (1mins)
Film: Cinecity: 57 Spring Street By ShMoJo 2013 (1min)
Wednesday 25 June 2014 @ 12:30PM
WEEK [03] PARIS: THE FRENCH NEW WAVE – – – AND very FAST CARS
[FILMS: PARIS VU PAR: GARE DU NORD & C’ÉTAIT UN RENDEZ-VOUS / CITY: PARIS]
Guest speaker: Helen Runting Urban Planner & Designer KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm
These two films in their juxtaposition explore ideas which touch upon the experience of living in Paris during this period of rapid modernisation (often referred to as a second Humanization of the city). Paris at this time was not only reshaped by modern architecture – there was also a new affluence and a new freedom a new pop culture to be experienced. The two films raise questions about transport and how it shapes the city.
GARE DU NORD by Jean Rouch: The French New Wave directors of the 1960s took their handheld cameras into the streets and it is this which contributes to Paris itself playing a role as main character in this body of film works. GARE DU NORD explores much of the modern experience in the second half of the 20th century in Paris. Demolition…construction…boredom…a tiny flat…in Paris!! … A train station / a bridge.
C’ÉTAIT UN RENDEZ‐VOUS by Claude Lelouch made a decade later, is a classic single take film, which amongst other things talks about transport and the city [the car only becoming affordable is this post war modern period] – the film has a strange mix of contractions – it begins just on the periphery near to where Le Cobusier worked and lived – it suggests a possibility but one that is only allowed due to a given circumstance – Just before dawn…one Paris morning…one fast car…it was a meeting.
Film: Paris Vu Par: Gare du Nord by (1964) Jean Rouch (20mins).
Film: C’était un rendez‐vous (1976) by Claude Lelouch (9mins)
Wednesday 25 June 2014 @ 12:30pm / MADA Gallery Building G Caulfield Monash University
A SHORT ARCHITECTURAL FILM PROGRAM
Week [02]: MODERNITY 20-60 PARIS & LOS ANGLES: LE CORBUSIER & CHARLES & RAY EAMES:
[FILM: BATIR – THE POWERS OF TEN / CITY: PARIS – LOS ANGLES]
This weeks screening will be followed with a discussion by STUART HARRISON
It’s not quite the classic 20-60 split but both these films show different but related modernities. This week 1930s modern architecture in the film BAITR, directed by Peire Chenal with inter-titles by LE CORBUSIER is juxtaposed with the work of post war modern Californian architects and film makers CHARLES & RAY EAMES. BATIR and Le Corbusier speak in reference to the future using the new – new construction methods, new building types, new materials and what this will bring, new better ways of living. THE POWERS OF TEN (1977) set in a park in Chicago, another great modern city, via suggested camera movements asks questions about scale and context, our place in the world and the worlds within us.
[This week could be viewed in some ways as from “Functionalism” to what Peter McIntyre may call “Emotional Functionalism” at global and personal scale.]
Wednesday 21 May 2014 @ 2pm / MADA Gallery Building G Caulfield Monash University
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A SHORT ARCHITECTURAL FILM PROGRAM
Week [01]: MELBOURNE HOUSING THEN & NOW
[ FILM: YOUR HOUSE AND MINE / CITY: MELBOURNE ]
In this week MELBOURNE HOUSING THEN & NOW the filmic is used to explore the modern architecture of post war Melbourne in terms of housing and how this in turns shapes the city. YOUR HOUSE AND MINE (1954), written by Robyn Boyd and directed by Peter McIntyre uses the juxtaposition of various images of housing types in Melbourne from white settlement to the present day (when the film was made in 1954). The film reflects upon the International Style and what it can offer for housing in relation to the existing housing stock. The film also gives an opportunity to think about our housing today in Melbourne. This is an important film for what it tells about housing in Melbourne and also for what it documents about the thinking and what people felt at a significant time of change in Melbourne, in term of architecture and city and what this means for us who live here.
The guest speaker is PETER MCINTYRE director of this particular film and one of the most important architects in Melbourne in terms his contribution to the city through his architectural work, his thinking around architecture and the heart, the feeling and emotions, he brings to his projects , thereby encouraging us to bring the same to our own projects.
Wednesday 14 May 2014 @ 3pm / MADA Gallery Building G Caulfield Monash University
SOYLENT GREEN (1973)
“When I was a kid food was food…before scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal life…how can anything survive in a climate like this…a heat wave all year long…the green house effect…everything’s burning up” Edward G. Robinson in SOYLENT GREEN (1973)
[NEW YORK]
WHAT IS MODERNITY? AND WHAT IS IT TO BE MODERN?
What is modernity and what is it to be modern…there are varying opinions but it seems broadly most of us might agree that modernity and what it is to be modern means big cities, at the turning of 20th century, with a rapid population increase, which means shifts in populations – people leaving home in great numbers for the first time; things moving faster, like trains and cars and eventually planes – technological advances – industrialization – coal and hence steam driving factories, massive suffering of the working classes, dangerous working conditions and putrid housing; mutilation of the human body in ways not seen before by the technology of war; moving the work place away from the home, not living in walking distance from home – suburbs: at first the rich and then the poor; an exhilarating life on the street: cafes, boulevards, arcades: chance encounters; spectacles, phantasmagorias, panoramas, the morgue, department stores, shop windows, moving images; and new always new; and more of it to buy; the emergence of the middle class, and then later the working classes becoming before off (for a time); a massive consumption of energy, ruination of many areas of the planet; it brought freedom to some…it brought the women’s liberation movement, better working conditions, an equality between classes, and in some instances races…it brought gay rights and land rights, it brought recorded sound, electricity, telephones, televisions, wash machines, ipads
It’s Tuesday September 3, 2013 and it’s unseasonably hot…in Melbourne, here and now each of us in this second and only once.
In Walter Benjamin’s (1892 – 1940) writings in the 1920s & 30s in works such as the Arcades Project and Some Motifs on Baudelaire one can see that he is looking back at another modernity from within the one of his own; and similarly when one looks back now to the modernity of Benjamin and through Benjamin (in the case of this text) to Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) it is from within our own modernity.
What do Benjamin’s and Baudelaire’s experiences of their urban modernity mean in terms of our urban modernity today? What is the modern urban experience in 2014? What is it to be modern now?
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