Map (2010) is a short film made using 3D computer visualisation. It is a meditation on architecture, film and cinematic spectacle. Map draws on the history of the Hollywood Picture Palace , the architects of which drew extensively on representations , both real and imagined, of palaces and landscapes. The film proposes a relationship between this architectural imagining and its precursors in the panoramic travelogue films of early cinema. Here the Picture Palace becomes itself an architectural and theatrical ‘set’ of imagined geography, embodying a cultural legacy and memory of aspirations and values reinforced and given voice by the Hollywood film industry.
Credits:
Creative Director: Wendy Kirkup
Computer Imagery: LIGHTLAB
Music: Jean Hasse
Sound: Dave Hamill and Jonathan Scott
Screenings:
2010
Map, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.
2009
ARC Shorts, ARC, Stockton, UK..
Supported by:
Arts Council South West
Northumbria University
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