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.
Exposition Martin Scorsese à la Cinémathèque française : « un sens inné de l’espace »/Martin Scorsese exhibition at Cinémathèque française : « an innate sense of space »
From 16 October 2015 to 14 February 2016, the Cinémathèque française presents the exhibition « Scorsese, l’exposition ». This exhibition which opened on October 14 in the presence of American film maker Martin Scorsese and the President of the French République F. Hollande, offers an opportunity to return to the life and work of this Sicilian immigrant’s…
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…
« 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.…
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…
Exposition temporaire « Revoir Paris » de François Schuiten et Benoît Peeters à la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine/ Temporary exhibition « Revoir Paris » of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
The temporary exhibition « Revoir Paris » held on 20 November 2014 to 9 March 2015, offers the opportunity to engage a dialog between the work of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, cartoonists, writers and screenwriters, with the one of Jules Verne, Robida or Le Corbusier, and, on the other hand, with development projects in Paris and…
« Hokusai », temporary exhibition in Paris
From October 1, 2014 to January 18 2015, the exhibition « Hokusai » is held at the Grand Palais in Paris. This exhibition presents nearly 500 works by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of the most famous Japanese artists in the world today. Much of the works presented will never leave Japan after the opening…
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.…
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…
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…
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.
The Grand Budapest Hotel : grandeur et décadence d’un grand hôtel d’après Wes Anderson / « The Grand Budapest Hotel » : the rise and fall of a great hotel by Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-drama written and directed in 2014 by Wes Anderson, and inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig.This movie was entirely filmed in Görlitz and other parts of Saxony as well as at Studio Babelsberg. This film tells the story of a grand hotel in Art Deco style, which experienced…
« 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…
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…
« Jeux vidéo l’EXPO » à la Cité Universcience à Paris/Exhibition « Jeux vidéo l’EXPO » at Cité Universcience in Paris
Between 22 October 2013 and 24 August 2014, the Cité Universcience (Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie) offers exhibition « Jeu vidéo l’EXPO » on a surface of 1000 m². This is the first major exhibition in France on video games, bringing their world a renewed look. Entre le 22 octobre 2013 et le 24 août 2014,…
« Spiral Jetty », Robert Smithson. Land art : quand l’espace réel devient l’espace artistique / When Real Space Becomes Art Space
Land art emerged in the late 60’s. This contemporary art movement uses real spaces, with their various natural or human components, to support sustainable or ephemeral artistic creation, where real space pertains to the work itself. Early forms of land art emerged in the West of the USA. Some works of Land Art are huge…
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