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8月2日 Urban Cinematics 城市电影术A two-day international symposium at the University of Cambridge, December 8 & 9, 2009 Call for Papers http://narrascape.org/ Urban Cinematics aims to review the
mechanisms by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our
understanding of cities while at the same time addressing two key
issues: how do filmmakers make use of cities and how do cities make use
of cinema? This symposium will explore the use of cinema as a tool/approach to investigate the phenomena, experience and narrative of cities. It will bring together the leading scholars in the divergent yet dynamic field between the disciplines of cinema and architecture and cover diverse sub-themes: Montaged Urban Cinematic Landscapes Montage-based films - without human leads - are usually referred to as city symphonies, a genre that flourished in the 1920s but which is still very present in contemporary moving image works. With the city as its subject, city symphonies not only represent the city as such, they also invent the city, enable its imagination and creation, and bring out the hidden, silent and invisible features of the city to public consciousness. Keywords: montage, city symphonies, cinéma vérité, observational cinema Cinematic Urban Archaeology A cinematic archaeology of a city makes visible the becoming of the modern city and its subsequent transformations since 1895. Such retrospectively longitudinal cinematic studies of cities are now possible through increasing availability of archive material. Such exploration of the filmic spaces of the past may enable historians, architects and urbanists to better anticipate the city of the future. Keywords: film history, film archives, urban studies, history of the city, city of the future Geographies of the Urban Cinematic Landscape Cinema may use cities in creative ways to reorganizes the city spaces into narrative geographies where urban fragments are collaged into spatial episodes. The alternative to creative geographies is cinematic topographical coherence. Both approaches - used in montage as well as in continuity editing traditions - may give different readings of the city and have different impact on our spatial perception. Keywords: Kuleshov, creative geographies, topographical coherence Cinematic Mapping Bird’s eye views of cities are common in cartography and planning representation while, in contrast to airborne geographical mapping, cinema is essentially concerned with the tactility of the on-the-ground experience, and formulates the city from the inside. There are numerous examples of films demonstrating cinema’s capacity to reconcile the optic - the bird’s eye view - with the haptic and the lived experience - a key component of the perceptual panoply in grasping and communicating the modern metropolis. Keywords: history of cartography, mapping, establishing shots, point of view Cinema as a Form of Spatial and Social Practice Films can reveal social practices where social relations are spatially organised: cinema makes explicit the relationship between the geography of an area within the social order and practice of the time. As characters move through the city, the urban topographies form a spatially organised social system. In doing so cinema renders a tangible vision of a reality through situations and provides a passage between an aesthetics of representation with an aesthetic of perception - thus enhancing our largely fragmentary knowledge of cities. Keywords: microhistory, situations, social practices We welcome both theoretical and practical studies on these themes. Moving image productions are also welcomed. We target at an informal yet inspiring symposium of 60-70 participants. 再欧游将再次前去欧洲大陆。度假也好，休闲也好，最终都会变为建筑考察。似乎建筑知识改变了我们寻常建立场所感的方式。我们的触觉被知识遮蔽，惊喜被媒体消解。 Google Earth的查询工作是必要准备。先将所有感兴趣的场地标记出来，再设计一笔画路径。这样城市就装变为一个基于媒体图像的地理学。旅游是对这一地理学的实践。这是为什么我很喜欢在陌生的城市徒步旅行、穿越贫乏无味的街区。因为这时身体在帮助我们建构自己的城市。 前两天在伦敦泰特看了Richard Long的个展，最喜欢的是几个对风的注记：感受—移动—空间。（待续）
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