UNIT H: CULTURAL GEOMETRIES

Monday, 6 October 2014

How to use film to show complex spatial relationships: Section through a Banlieue

La Haine (1995), dir. Mathieu Kassovitz


video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4qo3EwozH0Y

A classic scene from La Haine which gives an overview of a Parisian ‘banlieue’ through an excellent panning shot which is almost like a section through the housing estate. If any of you get to the top of one of the blocks consider how you can use film to show the experience of being up there... and the relationship between neighbouring blocks and the public spaces below.

public / private
relationships between inside and outside, between the individual and the public
section through a housing estate
communities

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