In 1982, the members of an U.S. Antarctica research program are confronted with bizarre phenomena. A Norwegian team not far from them has been decimated. While watching videos collected in the Norwegian camp, the heroes are intrigued by their discovery and decide to get there. They consult a map for preparing their journey. En 1982,…
The stylistic innovations that made the success of the TV series 24 are now influencing movies. A very clear example is Greenzone, the movie of Paul Greengrass. It is saturated with maps, navigation softwares, satellite images and many other representations of the space of action. Of course Green Zone is based on a true story…
In the movie High and Low – original title “Tengoku to jigoku”- (dir. Akira Kurosawa 1963), the police searches the kidnappers of the son of Gondo, the executive director of a shoe company in Japan (the child of Gondo’s chauffeur was in fact kidnapped by mistake). What’s interesting in this movie in terms of spatial…
In Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau collects « 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the « S » bus , witnesses an argument between a man with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later getting advice…
In his movie Die Hard, John MacTierman has to face a difficult problem: how to allow John MacClane (Bruce Willis) to locate in a tower where all floors are designed on a similar plan. He has also to be sure that the spectator will not get lost when the hero passes from a level to…
On the cover of « Le meilleur du Chat » album, Philippe Geluck makes a joke by inventing an interaction between the map and the user. Such an interaction was impossible at the release of the album (1994 for this Best Of and years before for the original). As new technologies (GPS, GSM, IP geolocation…) allow now…
(e)space & fiction 