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international festival for architecture in video |
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As architects we are used by now to admit that cinema has a bigger, and especially faster, capacity of recording, describing and narrating the physical transformations of our cities and of the landscapes in which they are laid. In the 1980s, countless movies warned us, much sooner than the architects’ writings and projects, of the wholly new, alien, violent and impetuous sense that metropolitan space was taking on. In more recent times, intuitively forewarned by the genius of David Lynch, sensitive movie-directors chose as a scenario for their stories the indefinite, changing space of Suburbia, at times agreeable and deceptively comforting, as it often occurs in American cinema, more often estranging, unfriendly and disorderly, especially in films of European source. This shift, tardily confirmed by architectural and town-planning theories, seems to have somehow brought Italian cinema back into action, off its guard and visionary when it wants to tell about the congestion and intensity that does not exist in the Italian “metropolis”, and undoubtedly much more at ease in placing its stories and characters into the mediocre, semi-urban continuum that stretches out on the plains and the hills of the Bel Paese. So, in these years, films by Amelio, Martone, Soldini, Piccioni, Moretti himself, who until now has always been Roman, have told us of urban realities and minor landscapes, and placed their characters right in the midst of that hybrid territory – urban, rural, metropolitan, industrial, in any case generally made of “homes”– for which architects and town-planners are still seeking the right definitions and the right methods of representation. Ready, we were saying, to recognize this capacity to film-makers, architects have had few occasions to converse with them, to analyze their view, in order to borrow forms and techniques of representation. This is the reason why this year the Florence festival wants to stage a direct dialogue between architects and movie-makers, opening the way to an even closer, more aware discourse and co-operation. Pippo Ciorra |
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