Film Review - La Jetée (1962)
La Jetée is a French film made by Chris Marker in 1962. It is made up of many different black and white photographs and the story is of a post-nuclear war experiment which specializes in time travel. Centered in post-apocalyptic Paris, survivors live underground and scientists make research into time travel with the intention of helping the future. The main male character is a prisoner of war after World War III and the main prisoner that is experimented on. He is transported to the past where he remembers a woman who he met before the war. He remembers seeing her on a jetty at an airport before witnessing a man die there. He develops a romance with the woman from the past but he is eventually sent to the future where he asks them to help escape the scientists who will kill him. The future people offer him a chance to escape permanently to their time but he declines and asks to be transported to the past so that he can rekindle his romance with the woman from his memories. He makes it…
OGR 06/11/2016
ReplyDeleteHi Maddi,
In light of the multi-disciplinary nature of your collaborator, I like very much the idea that the city he'd design with you would be a 'city of culture' - I think this a key idea and helpful in terms of choosing what we're looking at when it comes to your actual set-up for your digital set.
https://monoskop.org/László_Moholy-Nagy (look at everything he did!)
I really like lots of your thumbnails, and I like the way you've been 'constructing' them out simple shapes. As additional references informing your designs, check out Bauhaus architecture and design in general terms:
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm
This is a solid, encouraging start, Maddi: short version, a bit of general research into Bauhaus design, and develop your idea of Alak being a city of culture, and think about which buildings might feature in your digital set - and why.