Carte anthropomorphe : The Absolute Truth, Lawrence Arabia
The Absolute Truth par Lawrence Arabia . Anns Taylor, a gagné avec ce graphisme le prix 2016 de la meilleure pochette de disque aux Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards
L’étoffe des cartes / Maps made up out of Whole Cloth
Dans le film Diamants sur canapé Holly tricote un objet aux formes curieuses. Serait-ce le plan d’un ranch » ? Et si un fil invisible reliait carte et tricot ? /\ In the movie Breafkfast at Tiffany’s Holly is knitting an indistinct object, a ranch perhaps ? And if an invisible thread were connecting maps and knitting?
Week-end à Zuydcoote de Henri Verneuil ou quand la carte trahit / Betrayed by a Map
Dans « Week-end à Zuydcoote » de H. Verneuil, une carte utilisée pour montrer l’avancée des troupes allemandes et l’encerclement des troupes alliées, trahit la date de réalisation du film /\ In « Week-end à Zuydcoote » by H. Verneuil, , a map used to show the advance of the German troops and the encirclement of the Allied troops, betrays the date of realization of the film
« J’ai commencé à m’intéresser aux cartes … » Citation de Philippe Vasset
J’ai commencé à m’intéresser aux cartes quand j’ai compris qu’elles n’entretenaient que des rapports lointains avec le réel. — Philippe Vasset. Un livre blanc. Fayard, 2007, p.9
Salut, Gotlib ! On aura bien rigolé.
Merci pour tout : Gai-Luron, La Rubrique-à-brac, Fluide Glacial et tout le reste… On a bien ri. Tu n’étais peut-être pas un mutant, mais tu nous auras aidé à grandir.
La carte de « La France polluée ». Horloger de Saint-Paul (B. Tavernier)
Specimen : la France polluée s’affiche derrière le commissaire Guibout.
La grande vadrouille – Oury (2)
Un nouveau billet sur « La Grande Vadrouille », film bien connu mais dont la cartographie embarquée l’est moins /\ An extended version of a post about « La Grande Vadrouille », a famous movie (at least France) with several maps.
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.
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),…
Mona Hatoum’s map works / Les oeuvres cartographiques de Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum’s exhibition, held at the Centre Pompidou until the 28th of September, gathers over 100 works of this internationally renowned artist, in media as varied as performance, video, installation and sculpture. A dozen of these works give a particular overview of Mona Hatoum’s fascination for maps, which she represents as figurative images of real…
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.…
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.…
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
As a souvenir of Terry Pratchett En souvenir de Terry Pratchett
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…
Olonne : une cité imaginaire ? / An Imaginary City ?
« Description d’Olonne » is a little book by Jean-Christophe Bailly, which was published in 1992 by Editions Christian Bourgois, and was reissued in 2010 by the same publisher. This book is the careful and sensitive description, imbued with a certain nostalgia, of an imaginary city, Olonne, located on a river estuary bottom, near the Atlantic coast.…
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…
Lost in the City of Glass, Auster-Karasik-Mazzucchelli
Cité de verre (City of Glass) by Paul Auster was published in 1985. This is the first volume of the New York Trilogy by this author. An adaptation of this work in comics was published in 2005 by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli. David Mazzucchelli is an American cartoonist, best known for his versions of Batman…
« 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…
Les cartes du Japon de Florent Chavouet/ Maps of Japan by Florent Chavouet
Florent Chavouet, Manabe Shima, ©Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2010 Tokyo Sanpo and Manabe Shima, are actually at the intersection of comics, travel guides and travelogues. The maps of Tokyo and of the island of Manabe Shima that Florent Chavouet proposes in his two books are directly inspired by the geographic reality of of these places in…
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…
« La Carte de Tendre » : un exemple des cartes allégoriques du pays de l’amour / Allegorical Maps of the Country of Love
Carte de Tendre de François Chauveau dans Clélie, Histoire romaine, première partie de Madeleine de Scudéry, Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1654, © BnF La Carte de Tendre is a map of an imaginary country called Tendre, imagined by Madeleine de Scudéry in her novel Clélie, histoire romaine, published in 10 volumes from 1654 to 1660. This…
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