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…
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),…
Geography of fantastical countries
For those who didn’t come to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Festival this year (so am I), I warmly recommend to listen to this radio podcast (french only), which echoes the main topic of this year’s festival : http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-planete-terre-de-peter-pan-a-tintin-geographie-des-pays-imaginaires-2015-09-30 This program touches on many subjects and comic books already mentionned in this blog. Pour ceux qui, comme moi, n’ont…
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…
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.…
Paname Urbex : lieux de tournages à Paris / filming locations in Paris
Since 2013, the Facebook community Paname Urbex makes an inventory of filming locations in Paris, France. Actuals photographs and movies screenshots are matched up, often superimposed. This work is extended to albums covers, in particular those of the French singer Renaud. Note in USA Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team have the same goal. Depuis 2013,…
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.…
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…
Colloque Littérature et géographie. L’écriture de l’espace à travers les âges
The Conference « Littérature et géographie. L’écriture de l’espace à travers les âges » will be held at University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 les 12 et 13 mars 2015. The engaging program is already Online. Un colloque « Littérature et géographie. L’écriture de l’espace à travers les âges » se tiendra à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 les 12…
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…
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…
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…
« Brazil » de Terry Gilliam, un film qui n’a rien à voir avec le football/ »Brazil » by Terry Gilliam, a film which has nothing to do with football
With the opening today of the World Football in Brazil, the sports news offers an opportunity to discuss a world famous movie: Brazil, a film made in 1985 by Terry Gilliam. Brazil has been seared on the kind of anticipation films, himself taking his legacy of previous genre films, including Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life…
« 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…
