Peut-être (1999) is a film directed by Cédric Klapisch. This film takes place alternately in present time, the Eve of the Year 2000, and a future time, located in 2070. But the film exhibits also an apartment within an Haussmann type building in Paris, and outside of it, located in a wealthy neighborhood of Paris.…
Relief maps have a rather elegant rendering. Despite their decorative aspect, they are quite rare in fiction movies. This post attempts to begin an inventory of films with relief maps, beginning by 4 French movies. Les cartes en relief donnent un résultat assez élégant. Cependant il est plutôt rare d’en rencontrer dans les œuvres de…
Art and Geography – Aesthetics and practices of spatial knowledges conference takes place in Lyon (France) from the 11 to 13 Feb 2013. It offers a very rich program of communications and art performances. Le colloque Art et Géographie – Esthétiques et pratiques des savoirs spatiaux a lieu à Lyon du 11 au 13 févr. 2013…
Inception is a film written, directed and produced in 2010 by Christopher Nolan. The film tells the story of an « extractor », the hero, who enters the dreams of others to obtain information. Recruited for the sake of his faculties in the field of industrial espionage, the hero has lost his family and had to flee.…
The big Grand Palais Hopper’s exhibition in Paris is closing tonight. It is an opportunity to publish a post somewhere between news, spatial machinery and materialization of fiction. The New-York Time magazine published in July 2012 – and le Monde in September 2012- wrote about the work of the photographer Gail Albert Halaban. In this…
(e)space & fiction 