Next 7th February, Friday, at 6.30pm, the collection «Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema» will be presented at Circo de Ideias, with a conversation between Francisco Ferreira, editor of the collection, Alexandra Areia and Susana Ventura, authors of published essays, and Ana Resende, designer of the collection.

Published by Circo de Ideias, the five fascicles titled «Space Fictions» are a space developed for a critical and visual approach to the relationship between architecture and cinema.

 

The editorial project was supported by the General Directorate of Arts (DGArtes) and the Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT).

 

The announcement of the launch was made in the Público newspaper on February 18th:

Space Fictions_Cadernos de Arquitetura e Cinema is a bilingual editorial project coordinated by Francisco Ferreira, which explores the relationship between architecture and cinema and is published through critical essays – written by authors from different areas or cultural interests (in its first edition, the collection had the collaboration of Joaquim Sapinho, Susana Ventura, Alexandra Areia, Dietrich Neumann and Francisco Ferreira) – based on a selection of specific films, represented from the design experiences that have been collected in the practical exercise Space Fictions, an integral part of the work developed in the curricular unit Cities and Cinema of the 5th year of the Integrated Master’s Degree in Architecture at the University of Minho. In each of these experiences, the use of space as a narrative mechanism in fictional cinema is translated into architectural design. The organization and articulation of the essays with the drawings extracted from the films under analysis thus aims to continue to expose the inherent spatial conceptions and possibilities of cinema in the synthetic scope of representation and conception of architectural design.

FICÇÕES ESPACIAIS – DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI. ROBERT WIENE, 1920

Circo de Ideias 2024 / editor: Francisco Ferreira / texts: Francisco Ferreira, Joaquim Sapinho / photography: Bruno Nacarato, Mariana Barros / 130×210 / 36p / PT+EN / design: Ana Resende / issn: 2976-0798. (+info)

FICÇÕES ESPACIAIS – CQ. ROMAN COPPOLA, 2001

Circo de Ideias 2024 / editor: Francisco Ferreira / textos: Alexandra Areia, Francisco Ferreira / fotografia: Bruno Nacarato, Mariana Barros / 150×210 / 36p / PT+EN / design: Ana Resende / issn: 2976-0798. (+info)

FICÇÕES ESPACIAIS – BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. SPIKE JONZE, 1999

Circo de Ideias 2024 / editor: Francisco Ferreira / textos: Francisco Ferreira, Susana Ventura / fotografia: Bruno Nacarato, Mariana Barros / 150×210 / 36p / PT+EN / design: Ana Resende / issn: 2976-0798. (+info)

FICÇÕES ESPACIAIS – THX 1138. GEORGE LUCAS, 1971

Circo de Ideias 2024 / editor: Francisco Ferreira / textos: Francisco Ferreira / fotografia: Bruno Nacarato, Mariana Barros / 150×210 / 36p / PT+EN / design: Ana Resende / issn: 2976-0798. (+info)

FICÇÕES ESPACIAIS – SOLARIS. S. SODERBERGH, 2002

Circo de Ideias 2024 / editor: Francisco Ferreira / textos: Dietrich Neumann, Francisco Ferreira / fotografia: Bruno Nacarato, Mariana Barros / 130×210 / 36p / PT+EN / design: Ana Resende / issn: 2976-0798. (+info)

 

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