Thursday 7 November 2013

OUGD501- Cities and Film Lecture notes




Simmel is a german sociologist 





Simmel reverses what he's asked to do, he decided to write about the effect of the city. Investigation towards physiology and how the environment will effect the city.



Concern that the city might effect the people
Vulnerability 




Beginning of the 20th century

Rise of the city and sky scrappers 

Pioneered by louis Sullivan

coined the phrase: form follows function

sums up what modernism was about 



Decrotive reflecting the art deco 

Devided into four zones on a practical level

organised design to the building reflecting the form follows function




fire made way for the new buildings 

Sky scrapers came to represent the american dream and power and strength of the commercial and industrial 



Known for his celebration of industry in Detroit





Investigation influenced by political 


Looking at the production line 


Illustration between the body, the city and the machine


Cycle of mass production and consumption becomes the term Fordism


Comment on the irony of working for the employer to be able to buy the goods back off them




critique of the idea of the production line 


the film ends with hem deciding to be a waiter instead, triumph of art over industry








Factories closing and employment going up leads to the great depression


questioning of the american dream



the flanker is some body who's walks around taking it in, experience the city from an observing point of view 



The idea of art capturing the city 

not taking part in it 

removal allows them to reflect on city life 




He attempts to categorise different aspects of city life 

didn't finish the book

the architecture is design to be un-interuped 

attempt to incorporate this into urban planning

harmony between the human and the city


the camera is a way of gang access and being allowed to look

appears to be an observed moment but is a constructive moment





repeat of motif of grainy black and white experience of the city 



Him investigating the americanisation in Tokyo 

influenced in William Klines work





she's saying there should be an investigation of the female study on the street




Suggests that the only type of figure of the female on the street is the women is a bad lady or a prostitute




The woman is surrounded by the huge expanse of black in the window

the blackness of the paint is heavier around her shoulders

action of women smoking starring into space gives the impression of something to reflect on



documents at a distance 


The architecture of Venice is a kind of labyrinth 

a place where you can get lost but always get back to where you were

Venice id used for a metaphor for the mind

trapped in a state of real and imagination

physiological investigation




in this one she pays someone to follow her and records him following her 

complicated doubling 

tries to appear as though she is leading him round like a love story


rely on the Noir 




the success of her images recall an unidentified location of the city


image of 9/11








film noir and photography reporting on emergency in the city

name relates to a wee gee board 

he has a radio to get the crime scenes before anyone else



the images influenced the film noir genre 

portrays police investigation 

made into a tv series



continued into console game development



city of the future



post-modern borrowing of film noir aesthetics 



photography in the city 


idea of face in the crowd


investigates the idea of the individual and the individual in the crowd


the individuals are not aware of being filmed




invasion of private space in the public sphere


moments of people lost in though


detachment created by the lighting


idea of the loneliness of the city and the crowd 



the individual is not supported in us law




idea of spying on people


the images are of people that unaware of being photographed


appear alone and separate despite the environment



post modern experience of the city is found in the photography 

colour images 

lack of direction of the framing 

eyes become overwhelmed by the activity of the city

level of detail without unity to negotiate around the image


detachment from what you would expect people to react to


the end of the possibility of the flaneur

recorded endlessly 

recording by ordinary people of unbelievable events 





re-edits the film so it runs backwards



purposely over pixelated

uses existing imagery on google

photography  is no longer able to document the event 

reference to the degrading to the image itself 

looks at a type of surveillance city 

after the attack everything is recorded in the city 

reference to democracy of photography 

content of the image becomes more import that the aesthetic



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