Urban Cinematics
Tuesday, 8 December 2009 to Wednesday, 9 December 2009Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
| Tuesday, 8 December |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration and refreshments |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
Welcome and Introduction: Francois Penz and Andong Lu (University of Cambridge) |
| 09:45 - 13:00 | Session I: Montaged Urban Cinematic Landscapes |
| Chair: Francois Penz | |
| 09:45 - 11:00 | Keynote address and World Premiere Film Screening Thom Andersen (California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA) Get Out of the Car |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen) The Ghetto as City Symphony |
| 11:50 - 12:10 |
Patrik Sjöberg (Karlstad University, Sweden) I Am Here, or, The Art of Getting Lost: Patrick Keiller, and the ”New” City Symphony |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Keynote address Helmut Weihsmann (Vienna, Austria) Ciné-City Strolls - Imagery, Form, Language and Meaning of the City Film |
| 12:40 - 13:00 |
Discussion |
13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Screening Session: Joanna Zawieja |
| 14:00 - 16:15 |
Session II: Cinematic Urban Archaeology |
| Chair: Richard Koeck (Liverpool University) | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Introduction from Richard Koeck |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Keynote address Nicholas Bullock (University of Cambridge) Aids to Objectivity? Photography, Film and the new Science of Urbanism |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | McLain Clutter (University of Michigan, USA) Imaginary Apparatus: Film Production and Urban Planning in New York City 1966-1975 |
| 15:05 - 15:25 |
Janet Harbord and Rachel Moore (Goldsmiths, University of London) Film in our Midst: City as Cinematic Archive |
| 15:25 - 15:45 |
Marco Iuliano (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy) Celluloid cities: the impact of Istituto LUCE on the urban imaginary |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Discussion |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Tea break |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Session III: Geographies of the Urban Cinematic Landscape |
| Chair: Andong Lu | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 |
Alison Butler (University of Reading) Sleepwalking from New York to Miami |
| 16:50 - 17:10 |
Hing Tsang (University of Surrey) Direct Cinema and the global Dutch city in the work of Van der Keuken |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Discussion |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Keynote address Murray Grigor (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge) Sean Connery's Edinburgh |
| 19:30 |
Conference dinner: Magdalene College (Speakers only) |
| Wednesday, 9 December |
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| 09:30 - 13:00 | IV. Cinematic Mapping |
| Chair: Helmut Weihsmann | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Keynote address Wowo Ding (Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China) Mapping Urban Spaces: Montage as the Research method |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Marc Boumeester (Delft University of Technology, Holland) Cinematic mapping reviewed; transitioning to 'Collected Subjectivism' by transferring media typologies |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Celia Dunne (University of Cambridge) From Maps of Progress to Crime Maps (and Back Again?): The Plasticity of the Aerial Shot as Deployed in Mexican Urban Film |
10.40 - 11:10 |
Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Andrew Otway (Lancaster University) ‘Night on Earth’, Urban Wayfinding and Everyday Life |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Marie-Paule Macdonald (University of Waterloo, Canada) Moving images as architectural and urban design tools |
| 11:50 - 12:20 |
Discussion |
| 12:20 - 13:00 |
Keynote address Mark Lewis (Artist & Central Saint Martins College of Art, London) Film as re-imaging the modern space |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Screening Session: Thomas Duncan & Noel McCauley |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Session V: Cinema as a Form of Spatial and Social Practice |
| Chair: Maureen Thomas (University of Cambridge) | |
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Keynote address Layla Curtis (London) Traceurs - to trace, to draw, to go fast |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Maria Hellström Reimer (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) URBAN ANAGRAM: a bio-political reflection on cinema and the city |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | John David Rhodes (University of Sussex) Italy Turns Around: Urban Metonymy as Historical Method |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Shuai-Ping Ku (Nanhua University, Taiwan) A One and a Two – The Filming of Modern and Postmodern Cityscapes |
| 15:40 - 16:10 |
Discussion |
| 16:10 - 17:10 | Keynote address Roger Odin (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 University, Paris, France) Which role for the cinema in a working-class city: the case of Saint-Etienne |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Tea break |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Roundtable discussion |
| 18:30 |
Drinks reception: CRASSH |
Please note that the Thursday programme that follows is an optional workshop arranged by the convenors and held at The Department of Architecture, 4a Trumpington Street, Cambridge. | |
| Thursday 10th December |
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09:30 - 11:00 |
Workshop (Part I): Cinematic-Aided Design |
| Thomas Forget Stefano Rabolli Pansera Thomas Duncan & Noel McCauley | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Workshop (Part (II): Cinematic-Aided Design |
| Mariangela Piccione, Sarah Sharkey Pearce Amir Soltani Jiahao Wang, Shiyan Zhou | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Workshop (Part III): Cinematic-Aided Design |
| Nan Zhang Joanna Zawieja Eric Schuldenfrei | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
Drinks reception at 4a Trumpington Street |
