Star Wars / La guerre des étoiles. Episode V
Les géodispositifs rencontrés dans l’épisode V de la saga Star Wars /\ The spatial machineries in Star Wars Episode V.
Exposition Gus Van Sant à la Cinémathèque française : le plan d’un éléphant/Gus Van Sant exhibition at the Cinémathèque française : the plan of an elephant
Le plan du lycée dessiné par Gus van Sant pour tourner son film Elephant /\ The map of the Highschool drawn on by Gus van Sant for the shooting of Elephant.
Michel Butor, la carte de L’Emploi du temps / The Map of Passing Time
Pour rendre hommage à Michel Butor, le plus géographe des écrivains, éternel nomade parti définitivement la semaine dernière, nous reproduisons la carte qu’il a dessinée en frontispice de son roman L’Emploi du temps, paru en 1956. /\ To pay tribute to Michel Butor, one of the most close to geographers among writers, this eternal nomad who left us last week, we reproduce the map he drew as a frontispiece for his novel Passing Time, published in 1956.
House of Cards, un cas d’épure cartographique
Un point clignotant sur une carte et se déplaçant à l’écran pour signaler qu’un individu est pisté à son insu est devenu un plan cliché des séries policières ou d’espionnage. Dans le plan final très court de l’épisode 10 de la saison 2, la série House of Card renouvèle la figure d’une manière originale. /\ A moving dot flashing on a map to signal that a person is tracked has become a cliche of crime and mystery TV series. With the short final plan of the 10th episode of the second season, House of Card proposes something new and original.
La Vie Pure (Jeremy Banster)
Jérémy Banster consacre un biopic au journaliste-explorateur Raymond Maufrais dont la vie (et la disparition) est liée au mythe (cartographique) des monts Tumuc-Humac. /\ Jeremy Banster realized a biopic about Raymond Maufrais, a French reporter whose life (and disappearance) is linked to the (mapping) myth of Tumuk Humak Mountains.
Le « plan » du livre. La cache (Boltanski)/The « Plan » of the Book
Un joli et original géodispositif graphique accompagne le texte de La cache, le roman de Christophe Boltanski /\ We find a beautiful and original spatial machinery in La cache, Christophe Boltanski’s novel.
Batman Moved House to Detroit, Come and Visit / Batman a déménagé à Détroit, passez le voir.
Une visite de la base secrète de Batman dans Street View /\ A tour in the secret base of Batman
Star Wars / La guerre des étoiles. Episode IV
Les nombreux dispositifs spatiaux de La guerre des étoiles. Episode IV /\ The profuse spatial machineries in Starwars. Episode IV.
La vie très privée de Monsieur Sim (Michel Leclerc)
Dans ce film, les cartes sont partout : dans le nom du personnage Monsieur Sim, dans les menus et dans sa voiture où la voix du GPS tient un rôle majeur /\ « Cartes » (in French the same word is used for maps, cards and menus) are everywhere in this movie, adapted from Jonathan Coe’s novel Mr Sim.
Le passe muraille. Marcel Aymé
Local Materialization of Fiction: ‘Le passe muraille’ (Pass through the wall) is a short story of Marcel Ayme published in 1943. It depicts « an excellent man named Dutilleul who had the singular gift to pass through walls without any trouble. He was a third class employee at the Ministry of Registration and wore a pince-nez…
The war lover / L’homme qui aimait la guerre – Leacock
The war lover is an 1962 American film directed by Philip Leacock. The storie takes place during the Second World War, on an English air base. It focuses on captain Buzz Rickson’s personality (Steve McQueen), pilot of a B-17 called The Body, and his relationship with people and life. With his co-pilot, Lieutenant Ed Bolland (Robert Wagner),…
Traces de films en Campanie : 1) Le facteur à Procida
This post about Procida, a small island in the Bay of Naples, is the first of three dedicated to relations between places and cinema written after a trip through Campania. Ce petit tour sur l’île de Procida, dans la baie de Naples, inaugure une série de trois billets tirés d’un voyage en Campanie, qui décrivent…
« Paysages in situ ». Où se trouvait l’artiste ? / Where Was the Artist ?
Here are a game and a smartphone application proposed by the CAUE of Isère. The goal is to find the exact location where the artist was standing when he painted or photographed a scenery shown in the works of several museums of Dauphiné. Then people are invited to produce replicas of the work from this…
Megaforce – Needham
Megaforce is a 1982 american action film directed by Hal Needham. It is a real nanar, French expression for saying that a movie is so bad that it becomes rare. To make the pitch simple, it is the story of flying bikes (Megaforce, « a phantom army of super elite fighting men whose weapons are the…
A Self-Made Hero / Un héros très discret. Audiard (2)
(e)space&fiction already mentioned the London Underground map that Albert Dehousse learned by heart to enhance the credibility of his false engagement in the Resistance. One can found another very brilliant sequence later in the film when the « hero » travels to Germany for a military mission. Nous avons déjà mentionné dans (e)space&fiction le dispositif de la carte du…
Non ho sonno / Le sang des innocents / Sleepless – Argento
Non ho sonno (Sleepless) is a 2001 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento. Seventeen years ago, in Turin, Italia, Giacomo’s mother was murdered. The alleged murderer was found dead and the investigation was closed. Unfortunately, a serial killer sows again terror in a same way, leaving small paper animal figurine by the side of bodies.…
Breaking Bad : The Attack of the Giant Pizza / L’attaque de la pizza géante
The scene where Walter White throws a pizza on the roof of his house in Breaking Bad is one of the cult moment of the TV Series.It has recently become an interesting materialisation of fiction (see below). Le lancer de pizza sur le toit de sa maison par Walter White dans Breaking Bad est une scène culte…
La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement… cartographique – Hazanavicius et Mézerette
La Classe américaine (American Class) also known as Le Grand Détournement is a 1993 French television film directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) and Dominique Mézerette. It is exclusively made of excerpts of old Warner’s movies (plus one extract of the French TV series Maigret). All of them are combined and dubbed with new lines.…
Le premier SIG du cinéma ? Le Mystère Andromède / First GIS in Cinema ? The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science-fiction film directed by Robert Wise and based on the novel The Andromeda Strain published in 1969 by Michael Crichton. It tells the story of a four-day major American scientific crisis, in a very structured way. Many and various spatial machineries support the narration : split screen, text…
Promenade littéraire au Havre / Literary Tour of Le Havre
The city of Le Havre (France) has now its literary tour map. Drawing on the work of Bertrand Westphal on Geocriticism, Sonia Anton, professor of literature at the University of Le Havre, has developed a literary tour of the city through 20 places evoked by famous writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Honoré de Balzac. This…
Patrick Modiano, cartographie et vaporisation / Mapping and Vaporization
On peut qualifier Patrick Modiano, récent Nobel de Littérature, de romancier géographique. Ses romans entrelacent d’une manière unique temps et espace dans des enquêtes à la fois pointilleuses et inabouties aux ambiances brumeuses. Les livres de Modiano sont remplis de lieux, essentiellement parisiens, d’adresses, d’itinéraires très précis, où l’on suit souvent un enquêteur croisant archives…
Why Greenland ? / Pourquoi le Groenland ? (source : xkcd)
A quoi je prête attention dans les films : 1) l’intrigue, les personnages (très peu) 2) les écrans d’ordinateurs qui apparaissent brièvement à l’arrière plan (principalement). « – Attends! Sur cette carte floue derrière le général on voit qu’un des vaisseaux extra-terrestres se trouve au Groenland ! Pourquoi le Groenland ? – STP, est-ce qu’on peut…
Trap Street
A trap street, or errata, is a fictitious street inserted into maps to purposefully trap potential copyright violators of the map. Normally quite innocuous, these fictitious bits of information are used as proof to spot where plagiarism has taken place. The recent chinese feature film « Trap Street » inverts the usual meaning of this expression, becoming…
Game of thrones maps
To define the geography of Westeros and Essos, several initiatives emerged in the form of web maps. It aims to show character’s journeys and also where take place the Game of thrones TV series and books. We list here some of them. Afin de mieux cerner la géographie des lieux et espaces dans lesquelles prennent…
« Supermap » returns ! (and « Batmap » as well…)
Superpowers might give superheroes a very specific experience of space. Some examples of spatial machineries in comic books and movies confirm this idea. The superheroes are often confronted with original cartographic issues and often invent very precursory geospatial devices. So here are already Supermap and Batmap, before possibly, if you dig into your old Marvel magazines to find…
Doctor Who’s TARDIS in Google Street View
Quand la Google car a parcouru Earl’s Court Road, à Londre, elle surpris le TARDIS, célèbre machine à voyager dans le temps et l’espace, aux allures de « Police Box », utilisée par le Doctor Who. /\ When the Google car mapped Short Earl’s Court Road, London, it caught the TARDIS, famous Doctor Who’s time machine and spacecraft, which looks like a Police Box.
« Village », Séverine Hubard temporary exhibition in Strasbourg
The French artist Séverine Hubard (born in 1977) present at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS) a temporary exhibition called Village. Work specially made for MAMCS, Village consists of an assembly of 18 « huts », mainly in wood and metal, hung together. This monumental work is eleven meters high. Installed in the external…
Metropolis : Superman and Lois Lane statues / Les statues de Superman et Lois Lane
Rocky, Yoda or The Little Prince are not the only fictional characters who have been materialized. Superman and Lois Lane have also their own materialization. Even if Metropolis, the city where Superman lives is fictional, a city in Illinois has the same name and beyond this resemblance, the city host… Superman and Lois Lane! Rocky, Yoda…
Ward de Frédéric Werst : le pays imaginaire des Wards/ Ward by Frédéric Werst : the imaginary country of Wards
Ward Ie-IIe siècle et Ward IIIe siècle are two books by French author Frédéric Werst, published respectively in 2011 and 2014. Born in 1970, Frédéric Werst is associate letters. He teaches in a high school in Paris. « By love of literature », the author has invented a new language, Wardwesân, rich more than 10,000 words. This…
Napoléon : la polyvision d’Abel Gance/ Abel Gance’s Polyvision
In 1925, Abel Gance was the first director to use three cameras for shooting his movie Napoleon. By the juxtaposition of the three images he obtained a very large screen, three times the traditional format. This process, called « Polyvision », allows to increase not only the area shown by the images, but also to multiply the…
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