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MOCK-UPS IN CLOSE-UP |
Architecture is the hidden agenda of cinema!
Mock-ups in Close-up is a collection of excerpts from an increasing number of narrative films that feature
architectural models. In chronological order (from 1927 to 2010), the two-hour long video includes
classics by Lang, Leone and Resnais, as well as recent American comedies and more obscure material.
Some of the models figure quite prominently in the films, others appear more randomly. Without using
narration, the compilation attempts to push the inclusion of all mock-ups to the extreme - until traction
occurs, or until history (including that of architecture and its applications) again becomes relevant through
the archives of randomness: history as an image of the Cold War or the fluidity of labor, as a power play of
masculinity and the scale of the models themselves.
SCREENINGS:
November 29, 2010, 20:30
Film Screening at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, Austria
Mock-Ups in Close-Up
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2010
Video 120 min., A 2010
June 27, 2010
Film Screening at the 2010 NECS conference URBAN MEDIATION in Istanbul, Turkey
Mock-Ups in Close-Up
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2010
Video 118 min., A 2010
December 10, 2009
Film screening and exhibition at the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture
Mock-Ups in Close-Up
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2009
Video 115 min., A 2009
October 30, 2009
CRISTINA ENEA - CENTRO DE RECOURSOS MEDIO AMBIENTALES de San Sebastian/Spain
Mock-Ups in Close-Up
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2009
Video 106 min., A 2009
April 23, 2009:
FILMMUSEUM MUNICH, Germany: Screening and lectures by Gabu Heindl and Drehli Robnik at Architekturfilmtage Munich
Mock-Ups in Close-Up - short scenes with small houses
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2008
Video 105 min., A 2009
July, 2008: additional
LENGUAJES FILMICOS, Sevilla/Spain: Poder y simulakcro. Arquitectura
Screening, presented by Mark Wigley
Mock-Ups in Close-Up
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2007
Video, 97 min., A 2008
March 28, 2008:
STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE, New York/USA: special screening of the movie followed by a
presentation by the authors and a round-table discussion with Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley and others
Mock-Ups in Close-Up
Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 – 2007
Video, 97 min., A 2008
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and Peter Greenaway´s Belly of an Architect [1987], this compilation does not primarily deal with "films about
architecture". Rather, it offers a section through an all-inclusive film history which, in the project's re-writing,
appears to be obsessed with showing models in a variety of contexts: be it on the fringes or in the center of
a scene, models pop up in love stories, thrillers, psychological dramas, comedies or sci-fi.
The films compiled include arthouse and blockbuster fare, "auteur cinema" as well as contributions to film
franchises such as Dr. Mabuse, James Bond, Dirty Harry, Death Wish, Indiana Jones, Robocop, Austin Powers
and X-Men cycles. The list of filmmakers who could not resist to either pan over or to focus on architectural
models includes Fritz Lang, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, Ben Stiller,
the Farrelly Brothers, and Wes Anderson.
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content: (c) GABU Heindl Architektur 2010