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MOCK-UPS IN CLOSE-UP |
latest version:
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 2009
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
Mock-Ups in Close-Up is a comprehensive overview of one of the least-explored territories in the
relationship between architecture and cinema. In the premiere version 97 different scenes (excerpted
from films produced between 1927 and 2007), all including architectural models, are collated to become
in themselves a 102-minute movie.
Although it contains some obvious classics, such as King Vidor´s The Fountainhead [1948] 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.
Reactions of the press
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 2009
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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relationship between architecture and cinema. In the premiere version 97 different scenes (excerpted
from films produced between 1927 and 2007), all including architectural models, are collated to become
in themselves a 102-minute movie.
Although it contains some obvious classics, such as King Vidor´s The Fountainhead [1948] 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.
Reactions of the press
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