From: DOMINIC ANGERAME (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 12:56:46 PDT
Another mapping film of sorts is the hard to find film
called Port of Marseilles by Laslow Moholy Nagy where
the opening shot is a scene of the dowtown map of that
city being cut up by a pair of scissors. The film was
made in the 30's.
Dominic Angerame
--- pablo <email suppressed> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> The old obvious one that jumps to mind is oskar
> fischinger's berlin munich
> walking trip, as I just watched it last night
> (domain: ground route betweem
> munich and berlin, data collection and display;
> single film frames exposed
> en route).
>
> Am I getting the parameters correct here?
>
> The other artist (on the complete other end of the
> spectrum) I am thinking
> of would be walid ra'ad/the atlas group. I thinking
> more along the lines of
> his performance and lecture work, which deals quite
> a bit with the urban
> geography of beirut, collecting the impact of war on
> the landscape,
> specifically his newest body of work (I think called
> my neck is thinner than
> a hair) which collects data on all of the car bombs
> expolded in beirut
> during the civil war, and maps out both their
> physical impact (like where
> did it expolde vs. where did the engine block land)
> and the political map of
> who set off the bomb, who it was meant for, etc.
>
> David Gatten's Secret History of the dividing line,
> using as it's base the
> expedition of william byrd to settle boundary
> disputes between virginia and
> north carolina.
>
> pablo
>
>
>
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