Sophie Calle: film, photography, narratives

for more information on the artist: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sophie-calle-2692

All images copyright Sophie Calle

Scale & Clues- Group Exhibition Film

Scale and Clues Exhibition - Group Film

Lift: A film about a vertical community in a London tower block

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

"Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community."

Dir: Marc Isaacs / UK / 2001

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

How to study a public space?... ask William H. Whyte the father of public space analysis

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - LINK TO FILM - WATCH ME!

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - LINK TO BOOK

Today there were many conversations on public space, how to analyse it, how to know if it is successful, loved, used, or not working well enough... and what ingredients make a public space successful. We discussed developing criteria for this kind of analysis; desire lines, demographic  routes, opportunities to sit, sunlight, activation, overlooking, play,.... the list could go on and on.... This is the sort of thing William Whyte tackled over many years studying public spaces in NYC. 

The book is very well structured and will give you great advice on how to analyse public spaces. The film too.. I highly recommend this to anyone! 

"Les glaneurs et la glaneuse" / "The Gleaners & I" (2000); dir. Agnes Varda

Agnes Varda presents a view of Paris and France from the point of view of those on the fringes of society...a must watch

 

Illusion/Distortion Exhibition Film

ATMOSPHERES: Esther Attrup, Minerva Mariotti and Oscar Von Claer

The Human Scale

A fantastic film, focusing on the work of Jan Gehl and Gehl Architects and the role is making cities happier places to live in. It would be worth grabbing a copy and screening it in the studio. It is good fuel for our work in Earl's court….

 

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