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Les cadrages (…) ils constituent le premier aspect de la participation créatrice de la caméra à l’enregistrement qu’elle fait de la réalité extérieure pour la transformer en matière artistique. Il s’agit ici de la composition du contenu de l’image, c’est-à-dire de la façon dont le réalisateur découpe et éventuellement organise le fragment de réalité qu’il présente à l’objectif et que se retrouvera identique sur l’écran. Le choix de la matière filmée est le stade élémentaire du travail créateur au cinéma : c’est le deuxième point, l’organisation du contenu du cadre qui nous occupe maintenant. Marcel Martin, Le langage cinématographique (1955)

Magritte. Words, images, cinema and architecture

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Pensamiento, art, cinema, architecture

René Magritte published « Les mots et les images » in 1929. The architecture in his paintings and his cinematographic experiences are inspired by this hieroglyphic of multiple readings.

Absolutely on Music. Conversations.

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Pensamiento, art, music, cinema, architecture

This text was born as a personal commentary to a rich two-way dialogue established between the writer Haruki Murakami and the musician Seiji Ozawa in their book Absolutely on Music. Conversations. Along the way, some more interlocutors fictitiously joined the conversation.

Georges de La Tour in Tous les matins du monde

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art, photography, cinema, architecture

Alain Corneau recognizes the inspiration in the work of the baroque painters Lubin Baugin and Georges de La Tour when studying the composition of certain frames and the intimate treatment of light in the film Tous les matins du monde, released in 1981.

The false return: archeographies of Elevator to the Gallows.

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cinema, architecture

Based on a strictly visual analysis of the film's images, the article studies the possibility of tracing a possible graphic reconstruction of the spaces used during the shooting of Ascenseur pour l'échafaud [Elevator for the Scaffold, Louis Malle, 1958].

Philip Glass y Jean Cocteau. Opera and cinema

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art, music, cinema

Philip Glass compose between 1991 and 1996 a trilogy of operas based on three homonymous films by Jean Cocteau: Orphée (1950), La belle et la bête (1946) and Les enfants terribles (1950). Always working with absolute respect and admiration for the French director Philip Glass makes a transcription between the cinematographic field and the operatic one very different in the three cases.

Godard in the Villa Malaparte

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cinema, architecture

In 1963, six years after the death of its owner and the same year of the death of the architect Adalberto Libera, Jean Luc Godard chooses the Malaparte house for his film Le Mepris, based on a novel by the Roman writer Alberto Moravia. This text is an excerpt from the article Tres [+1] personajes en busca de terraza, published in 2009 in the book CASA x CASA, in which the filming in the house is analysed.

Ozu’s House

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cinema, architecture

The architect Marta Peris Eugenio has just published a revealing document about one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century and, in addition, one of the most interesting to architects who approach the cinema as more than just entertainment: La casa de Ozu [Ozu’s house]. A book that, dodging the historical-documentary point of view that characterizes research in other disciplines, works from the particular perspective of the designer, with a professional look related to the existing with a certain greed for appropriation, a more technical than historical curiosity, interested in unveiling the way in which the problems were solved from the logic of the project, analyzing the visual and constructive decisions adopted to build the film.

Cinema female pionners

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art, cinema

The first recognized presence of women in the universe of cinema was in the field of interpretation. Two other works, however, were from the beginning covered for very different reasons mostly by the female world in a much more anonymous way: the editing and the control of continuity during filming and postproduction. Although, without a doubt, the area in which this necessary recognition of the important role of women in the world of cinema becomes more relevant is in the field of filmmaking.

The single look. An architect thinks the cinema

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art, cinema, architecture

Abada Editores published in January 2019 my book La mirada única. Un arquitecto piensa el cine [The single look. An architect thinks the cinema]. Juan Deltell Pastor.