Quand le fantôme d’un globe perdu continue d’organiser le monde

« La Passe-miroir » est un cycle de romans de Christelle Dabos, publié entre 2013 et 2019, où l’on suit une héroïne dans un univers post-cataclysmique où subsistent des éclats du monde anciens sous forme d’arches habités par les humans. Si le globe a disparu, il continue de gouverner l’organisation spatiale et physique du monde comme une sphère dématérialisée /\ “La Passe-miroir” is a series of novels by Christelle Dabos, published between 2013 and 2019, in which we follow a heroine in a post-cataclysmic universe where fragments of the old world remain in the form of arches inhabited by humans. Though the globe has disappeared, it still governs the spatial and physical organization of the world like a dematerialized sphere.

Silent Running. Le globe au cinéma qui précède « Blue Marble »

Silent Running, le film de science fiction écologique de Douglas Trumbull en 1972 montre la Terre vue de l’espace quelques mois avant la photographies prise lors de la mission Apollo 17, qui marque les esprits et devient célèbre sous le nom de Blue Marble. /\ Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 ecological science fiction film, shows Earth as seen from space a few months before the photograph taken during the Apollo 17 mission, which made a lasting impression and became famous under the name Blue Marble.

« L’Empereur du monde » danse avec un globe. La satire géopolitique de Charlie Chaplin

Dans Le Dictateur (1940), Charlie Chaplin réalise une scène fameuse où Hynkel/Hitler jongle avec un globe terrestre. Le billet s’appuie sur des travaux récents et une analyse originale pour discuter les interprétations de cette séquence. /\ In The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin directs a famous scene in which Hynkel/Hitler juggles a globe. This article draws on recent research and an original analysis to discuss the interpretations of this sequence.

Les géodispositifs d’Indiana Jones. Typologie.

Le billet présente et classe les géodispositifs fictionnels du célèbre film Indiana Jones et les Aventuriers de l’Arche Perdue /\ The posts presents and classifies the fictional geographic apparatus from the famous film Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Un film-géographe. La vie privée de Sherlock Holmes par Billy Wilder

Troisième et dernier billet consacré au n° 2 de la revue de cinéma Cinétrenss sur cinéma et cartographie : une analyse de la géographie singulière La vie privée de Sherlock Holmes, chef d’œuvre abîmé de Billy Wilder. /\ Third and last post dedicated to the issue #2 of the Cinema Journal Cinétrens about cinema and mapping : an analysis of the singular geography of Billy Wilder’s broken masterpiece : The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

Les cartes dans la peinture de Vermeer / Maps in Vermeer’s paintings

Sur les 37 œuvres connues de Vermeer, plusieurs comportent des cartes accrochées au mur des intérieurs représentés. S’agit-il de simples objets de décor ou de symboles à la signification plus ou moins évidente ? /\ Of the 37 works known to Vermeer, several are containing maps, hanging on the wall of the interiors depicted. Are they simple elements of decoration or symbols with a more or less obvious meaning ?

Tout en haut du monde (Rémi Chayé)

Tout en haut du monde est un film d’animation réalisé par Rémi Chayé qui relate l’aventure d’une jeune fille russe partie à la recherche de son grand-père disparu pendant une expédition vers le pôle Nord à la fin du XIXe siècle.Les cartes y jouent un rôle central. /\ Tout en haut du monde is an animated film directed by Rémi Chayé, that tells the adventure of a Russian girl in search of her grandfather that disappeared during an expedition towards the North Pole at the end of the 19th century. Maps play a central role in the film.

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…

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…

Gravity, film géospatial/Geospatial Movie

There is no representational spatial machinery in Gravity, the very impressive film by Alfonso Cuarón. No map, no device for locating characters, no screen for designatind targets. There is no computing tool in this sophisticated but somewhat abandoned technological world where manuals are in binders and where you crank up the retrorockets. In Gravity, you…

Cartographier une planète où les lieux sont mobiles : Donjon. Sfar, Trondheim et al.

Donjon is a series of satirical fantasy comic books created and supervised by two famous French artists, Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim. Many other talented designers have contributed to this collective work: Manu Larcenet, Christophe Blain, Blutch or Andreas. The world of the series is extremely complex and changing, and the question of mapping this…

Siodmak, The Killers : where are we? / Les Tueurs : où sommes nous?

The Killers (Siodmak,1946) is truly a classic of film noir. The opening scene is famous. Two men are sitting in front of a car driving at high-speed through the night. Then the camera scans the road and a sign shows up in the headlights: Brentwood, New Jersey. And below, in an ironic mode considering what…

L’Île aux fleurs / Ilha das Flores – Furtado

Isle of Flowers is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado about globalization.You can watch it (12 min) on line. Here are the part one and the part two in English). The film starts with a spinning globe and the next shot focuses on a field of tomatoes. A voice  locates the action very…

Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood/Le Loup gris et le Petit Chaperon rouge – Bardine

Garri Bardine is a Russian animation director. In 1990 he created Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood (Russian:  » Серый волк энд Красная Шапочка, Krasnaya Chapotchka seriy Volk i »), a claymation film. The movie was  adapted from the famous children’s story Little Red Riding Hood as a musical. Living in Moscow, the mother of…

Casablanca: At the Origins of Google Earth

Before Google Earth there was WorldWind and Keyhole (the company that created the application used to develop Google Earth). Before Keyole, there was the movie Powers of Ten (dir. Charles and Ray Eames 1977). Indeed, one of the co-founders of Keyole – Avi Bar-Zeev – recognized the inspirational dimension of Power of Tens in the…

The Use of Google Maps in « Netherland »/L’usage de Google Maps dans « Netherland »

Google Maps appears in Joseph O’Neill’s novel Netherland. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first time that Google Maps appears in a literary work. If you have an earlier example, please write us a comment. Of course Google Maps doesn’t play a central role in the book. Google Maps appears in two…