The correct answer to Quiz # 1 is Poupoupidou, a 2011 movie by French director Gerald Hustache-Mathieu. The film tells the story of David Rousseau, a writer, who investigates the tragic and mysterious death of Candice Lecoeur, a young starlet of Mouthe in Jura (France), which sees herself as a reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. On…
The artist and film director Jeff Deson created an extraordinary new montage of Rear Windows, the movie from Hitchock, in an unique animated panorama. An amazing experience. L’artiste et réalisateur Jeff Deson propose un objet très inattendu : la mise à plat en un seul tableau panoramique animé de tous les plans du film de…
As already mentioned here we contribute to organize at the Rencontres SIG La Lettre a Géocafé named Cinemaps and a game Géomémory. On this occasion, we are inaugurating a new kind of post: the Quiz. Periodically, we will propose a question about the topics of (e)space & fiction. It can concern old or forthcoming stuff.…
Face/Off is a thriller movie directed by John Woo in 1997. Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a dangerous terrorist, fell into a coma after a fight with Sean Archer, an FBI agent played by John Travolta . Thanks to a plastic surgery operation, Archer takes the face of Troy in order to make Troy’s brother confess where…
Pour la 4ème année, les géomaticien-nes, spécialistes des SIG, néogéographes, fous de cartes et assimilés venant de France, de Navarre et d’ailleurs convergent début avril à Marne-la-Vallée près de Paris pour les Rencontres SIG la Lettre. Cette année, (e)space & fiction participe doublement à l’événement. Nous organisons le mercredi 4 avril de 18h à 20h…
Un balcon en forêt is a film shot in 1979 by Michel Mitrani from the book of the same title of Julien Gracq, published in 1958 by Editions Jose Corti. This editor published in 2011, Manuscrits de guerre of the same author, written while he lived as a military the few weeks of the German…
Une affaire d’état is a 2009 french political thriller directed by Eric Valette. This movie is an adaptation of Dominque Manotti’s novel, Nos fantastiques années fric. It is about an affair of state, arms trafficking between France and Africa, covert financing, governmental security agencies, prostitution… and criminal investigation.We take a special interest in two characters.…
Duel, le premier film de Spielberg, qui raconte la poursuite d’une voiture par un camion fou est entièrement tourné au niveau du sol. Aucune vue aérienne, très peu de recul. La caméra est à hauteur des pare-chocs et de l’habitacle des véhicules, plus rarement sur un bas-côté à peine surélevé. Ce filmage tangentiel participe du…
After 23 seasons, the Simpsons have traveled to many countries. To discover them, Slate.fr website offers an interactive map that shows which countries the most famous family of the United States have visited and in which season of the famous TV serie). Après 23 saisons, les Simpsons ont parcouru de nombreux pays. Pour les découvrir,…
La Croix and many other newspapers mentioned the discovery that the copy of the Mona Lisa in the Prado Museum in Madrid is older than it was previously thought and was painted in Da Vinci’s workshop itself. It appears the painting is contemporary with the original,and could be a preparatory study for Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.…
Invisible Target is a 2007 Hong-Kong action movie directed by Benny Chan. Three police officers join their forces together to fight a mafioso organization. The main spatial machinery is a phone localization in order to identify his owner. Invisible Target est un film d’action hongkongais réalisé par Benny Chan et sorti en salles en 2007.…
Art Spiegelman, creator of the graphic narrative Maus, is the President of the 39th Angoulême International Comics Festival in Angoulême. It is the opportunity to celebrate on (e)space & fiction this exceptional designer by presenting this deeply moving frame issued from page 127 in the first volume of Maus. The road network that forms a…
The Dorothy Art Collective created a Song Map where streets and places names are replaced by song titles, bands names, albums titles. Some examples below (Song / Artist / Album). Le collectif Dorothy a créé Song Map, un plan où les rues et les lieux ont été baptisés en utilisant des titres de chansons ou…
Here is a seasonal post. Christmas time is for children and children’s stories. It is the perfect moment to present the simple and naive but very effective spatial machinery Jean de Brunhoff imagines when he relates the discovery of the house of Father Christmas by Babar in the album Babar and Father Christmas(1941). It illustrates…
Total Recall is a 1990 science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. It is an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick’s novel, Remember it for You Wholesale. The movie tells the discovery by Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) he is not the man he believed he was. A spatial machinery takes a major role in the…
The French singer Florent Marchet, sometimes compared to Alain Souchon despite their very different universes, likes also to refer to places in his songs. His personal geography is located slightly further south than Souchon’s Sologne. Florent Marchet evokes his natal Berry in Gargilesse, an instrumental that refers to « one of the most beautiful villages in…
The Sunchaser is a 1996 movie directed by Michael Cimino. Brandon « Blue » Monroe (John Seda) is a 16 years old half-blood Navajo. He is in jail, suffering from an incurable cancer. During an examination at the UCLA Medical Plaza, Los Angeles, he takes the oncologist Reynolds (Woody Harrelson) hostage. He begins a desperate trip to…
Toute la beauté du monde is a French movie directed by Marc Esposito and released in 2006. Frank (Marc Lavoine) falls madly in love at the first sight with Tina (Zoé Félix). But she cannot love him back. Her best love just died and she is deeply depressed. On a trip to Bali where Tina…
The dark lens series of the photographer Cédric Delseau (a book at Editions Xavier Barral) is an artistic kind of materialization of fiction. The photographer takes pictures in contemporary urban sites of different countries (France, Dubai …) and add them characters and spaceships from the movie Star Warsby George Lukas. This is not just a collage…
We announced here the Cinematheque Française exhibition from October 19, 2011 to January 29, 2012 about Metropolis, the Fritz Lang’s film . On this occasion, the new version of the film, restored in 2010, will be shown to the public. This version is 150 minutes long with the 30 minutes extra discovered in Buenos Aires in…
Reality Bites is a 1994 romantic comedy film directed by Ben Stiller that tells the story of four young adults newly graduated who are looking for a place in the society. Among them, Troy (Ethan Hawke) loves Lelaina (Winona Ryder) in secret. Two maps appear in the movie. Génération 90 est une comédie romantique réalisée…
In Enemy of the State, Tony Scott addresses the topic of spying and global watch of citizens by US security forces when they are suspected to represent a threat to internal security. This is a recent film version of a classic theme, that George Orwell had already taken as the central subject of his book…
Un bar parfait is a French novel by Jean-Bernard Pouy published in September 2011. A white wine lover goes all over Paris in search of the perfect bar. The One that will offer him better than Cabernet or Sauvignon. He tries one bar after the other, all are different. In this book J.-B. Pouy uses…
The Cinémathèque Française in Paris presents a new exhibition from the 19th October 2011 to the 20th January 2012. It is dedicated to Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s master work. This movie is famous for having influenced most of science-fiction films and has been considered as « the matrix of cities in the future ». Read also this post: …
Yoda is THE Jedi Grand Master in Georges Lucas’s epic space opera: Star Wars. He appears in 5 of the 6 movies (I, II, III, V et VI). He materializes mainly in two places of the real world. Yoda est LE grand maître Jedi du space-opera Star Wars imaginé et réalisé par Georges Lucas. Il…
Firefly is a TV series from 2002, wrote and directed by Joss Whedon (Buffy, Doll House, …). In Serenity, the film the same director released in 2005, the action takes place some time after the series. Firefly joyfully mixes and shakes up different film genres: science fiction, space odyssey, western, gangster and swashbuckler movies. It depicts in…
Thomas Klimowski is an artist who publishes his french blog « a kind of virtual workshop which outlines some work and some research workshops. » These posts of July 6th, July 7th and August 8th display screenshots of films of spatial machineries (mostly maps). Thomas Klimowski est un artiste qui publie sur son blog « une sorte d’atelier…
Minority Report is a Steven Spielberg film (2002) adapted of the eponymous short story that Philip K. Dick published in 1956. More than fifty years after being written, and although widely modified in the film version, the short story of Dr. K. Dick is still of a troubling modernity. When it was released, the film…
The Monster club is a 1980 horror movie directed by Roy Ward Baker. Eramus (Vincent Price) is a vampire. He approaches Ronald Chetwyn-Hayes (a real horror writer) who let him drink a little of his blood. In gratitude, the vampire invites his victim to the Monster club where he tells him 3 stories. A spatial…
Gordon Matta-Clark was a conceptual artist from the downtown New-York art scene during the 1970s whose work focused on the physical changes affecting New-York during the post-war decades. His work Real Properties : Fake Estates (RPFE) (1973-1974) documents some of these changes and their consequences on the urban fabric of the city. The course of…
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