Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization Nitin Bathla, Silvia Cipelletti, Markus Lahteenmaki, Klearjos Papanicolaou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bathla, Nitin.

Contributor:

Bathla, Nitin, editor.

Cipelletti, Silvia, editor.

Lähteenmäki, Markus, editor.

Papanicolaou, Klearjos, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : JOVIS, 2026.

Berlin JOVIS, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Die Stadttheorie befindet sich angesichts der sich verscharfenden okologischen und politischen Krisen in einem grundlegenden Wandel. Film und Kino - Medien, die historisch eng mit der Stadt verknupft sind - haben seit den spaten 1980er Jahren ebenfalls eine tiefgreifende Transformation in ihren Darstellungsformen und ihrer visuellen Kultur durchlaufen. Heute untersuchen Filmemacher*innen, Fotograf*innen und radikale Kunstler*innen die Landschaften und Territorien planetarer Urbanisierung in all ihren Facetten. Filme wie Behemoth (Zhao Liang, 2015), Homo Urbanus (Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, 2017) und Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2012) sind pragnante Beispiele dieses Genres. Doch wie beeinflussen sich Kino und Stadt gegenseitig? Dieses Buch inszeniert eine Begegnung zwischen Film und der Theorie planetarischer Urbanisierung, indem es den Begriff der Sensorien planetarischer Urbanisierung" einfuhrt. Es bietet eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit den vielschichtigen Erfahrungen urbanen Lebens - innerhalb wie auch jenseits der Stadt. Mit einem Vorwort von Neil Brenner und Beitragen von Nitin Bathla, Silvia Cipelletti, Markus Lahteenmaki, Klearjos E. Papanicolaou, Asel Kadyrkhanova, Mose Cometta, Jacqueline Maurer, Sofie Stilling, Sren Nielsen, Hans Teerds, Fred Truniger, Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen, Anne Romme, Lorenzo Tripodi, Adam Jasper, Junia Cambraia Mortimer, Roberto Luis Monte-Mor, Rosa Barba, Joshua Bonnetta und J. P. Sniadecki, Christian Schmid, Ana Vaz, Hira Nabi, Chrystel Oloukoi, Louise Lemoine und Ila BekaVerbindung zeitgenossischer visueller Kultur mit der transformativen Theorie der planetaren UrbanisierungMit Beitragen von Wissenschaftler*innen, Forscher*innen, Filmemacher*innen und Praktiker*innenStutzt sich auf verschiedene wissenschaftliche Disziplinen und kreative Praktiken, darunter Film, Urbanistik, Geografie, Architektur, Architekturgeschichte und KulturwissenschaftenAusschnitte aus den Arbeiten der im Buch vorgestellten Filmemacher*innen konnen uber die Research Collection der ETH Zurich gestreamt werden: All the Dreams We Dream: AusschnittASEL KADYRKHANOVAhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788727https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/PcPvCeiplv65542'14. 8"N 1233'18. 4"ESOFIE STILLING, SREN NIELSEN, und HANS TEERDShttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788734https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AMdfbtCtOvqTeaching Architecture Through an Eye-Level Perspective: BeispieleEMIL HVELPLUND KRISTIANSEN und ANNE ROMMEhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788738https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/E_FW8yYedhIhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/MOQdFlbJsgkhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AII3KaUrTYuCinematic Urbanism: BeispieleLORENZO TRIPODIhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788749https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/FjH1PqUq0jrhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/GA-bRExEClRhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AJ8mR5Uj-9TWe Have Extra Lives - Cinema, Gaming, Language, and the Production of Hong Kong Space: ErganzungADAM JASPER und PETER NELSONhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788744https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/BR8nLSO09OeUrban-Nature Archives: FragmenteJUNIA CAMBRAIA MORTIMER und ROBERTO LUIS MONTE-MORhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788732https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/NQYeveOFdBDhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AebcYBoy-VNhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/C86DCKISH_vCommunity Media: VideosCHRISTIAN SCHMIDhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788750https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/Pjs9WjHu53thttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/HYy-qEUrPqyAll That Perishes At The Edge Of Land: AusschnitteHIRA NABIhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788729https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/DlUjDUUFiSShttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/MTUykQT6Pwvhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/MFhdm2NKbQ6Homo Urbanus: TrailerLOUISE LEMOINE und ILA BEKAhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788712https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/GO2dwFW7_oi

Amid deepening socio-ecological crises, urban realities are changing fundamentally. Cinema, a medium historically intertwined with the city, has likewise undergone a profound transformation in its modes of representation and visual culture since the late 1980s. Today, filmmakers, photographers, and radical artists investigate the distant landscapes and territories of extended urbanization in all their complexity. Films like Behemoth (Zhao Liang, 2015), Homo Urbanus (Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, 2010), and Leviathan (Verena Paravel, 2012) exemplify this practice. But how do cinema and the representation of the city mutually shape each other? This book stages an encounter between filmmaking and the built environment, as well as film theory and the theory of planetary urbanization by deploying the notion of the urban sensorium as a conceptual lens. It foregrounds the multifaceted sensory experiences of urban life within and beyond the city, and its representation in cinema. With a foreword by Neil Brenner and contributions by Nitin Bathla, Silvia Cipelletti, Markus Lahteenmaki, Klearjos E. Papanicolaou, Asel Kadyrkhanova, Mose Cometta, Jacqueline Maurer, Sofie Stilling, Sren Nielsen, Hans Teerds, Fred Truniger, Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen, Anne Romme, Lorenzo Tripodi, Adam Jasper, Junia Cambraia Mortimer, Roberto Luis Monte-Mor, Rosa Barba, Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki, Christian Schmid, Ana Vaz, Hira Nabi, Chrystel Oloukoi, Louise Lemoine and Ila BekaBrings together contemporary visual culture with the transformative theory of planetary urbanizationFeatures contributions from scholars, researchers, filmmakers, and practitionersDraws on various academic disciplines and creative practices including film, urban studies, geography, architecture, architectural history, and cultural studiesExcerpts of works by the filmmakers featured in the book can be accessed via the ETH Zurich Research Collection: All the Dreams We Dream: ExcerptASEL KADYRKHANOVAhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788727https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/PcPvCeiplv65542'14. 8"N 1233'18. 4"ESOFIE STILLING, SREN NIELSEN, and HANS TEERDShttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788734https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AMdfbtCtOvqTeaching Architecture Through an Eye-Level Perspective: ExamplesEMIL HVELPLUND KRISTIANSEN and ANNE ROMMEhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788738https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/E_FW8yYedhIhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/MOQdFlbJsgkhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AII3KaUrTYuCinematic Urbanism: ExamplesLORENZO TRIPODIhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788749https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/FjH1PqUq0jrhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/GA-bRExEClRhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AJ8mR5Uj-9TWe Have Extra Lives - Cinema, Gaming, Language, and the Production of Hong Kong Space: AccompanimentADAM JASPER and PETER NELSONhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788744https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/BR8nLSO09OeUrban-Nature Archives: FragmentsJUNIA CAMBRAIA MORTIMER and ROBERTO LUIS MONTE-MORhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788732https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/NQYeveOFdBDhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/AebcYBoy-VNhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/C86DCKISH_vCommunity Media: VideosCHRISTIAN SCHMIDhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788750https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/Pjs9WjHu53thttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/HYy-qEUrPqyAll That Perishes At The Edge Of Land: ExcerptsHIRA NABIhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788729https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/DlUjDUUFiSShttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/MTUykQT6Pwvhttps: //video. ethz. ch/! v/MFhdm2NKbQ6Homo Urbanus: TrailerLOUISE LEMOINE and ILA BEKAhttps: //doi. org/10. 3929/ethz-c-000788712https: //video. ethz. ch/! v/GO2dwFW7_oi

Contents:

Frontmatter

2Content

Foreword / NEIL BRENNER

9Sensoriums of Planetary Urbanization: Journeys Through Film and Cinema from City Symphony to the Planetary Sublime / NITIN BATHLA, SILVIA CIPELLETTI, MARKUS LAHTEENMAKI, KLEARJOS E. PAPANICOLAOU

29Artistic Research as Aesthetic Resistance: Reframing Turksib (1929) Through the Lens of the Kazakh Famine / ASEL KADYRKHANOVA

47Landscapes of Aesthetic Extraction: Ticino and the Production of Space Through the Film Industry / MOSE COMETTA

63From a Sensorium for Peripheries to a Center of Political Activism: Pasolinis Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964), Raus Das Neue Evangelium (2020), and Matera / JACQUELINE MAURER

81Calling for a Regenerative Approach to Urban Renewal in Copenhagen: Filmmaking as an Analytical Practice for Understanding Omitted Aspects of Value in Postindustrial Areas / SOFIE STILLING, SREN NIELSEN, HANS TEERDS

103Cameras Everywhere: The Gaze of Digital Cameras and How They Reveal the Holobiontic City / FRED TRUNIGER

117A Cinematic Cartography: Teaching Architecture Through an Eye-Level Perspective / EMIL HVELPLUND KRISTIANSEN, ANNE ROMME

131From Cinematic Urbanism to Technological Urbiquity / LORENZO TRIPODI

151We Have Extra Lives: Cinema, Gaming, Language, and the Production of Hong Kong Space / ADAM JASPER

173Urban-Nature Archives: Photography and the Sensory Practice of History on Transvisualizing the Concept of Extended Urbanization / JUNIA CAMBRAIA MORTIMER, ROBERTO LUIS MONTE-MOR

193From Aerial View to Handheld Camera: Choreographies of Unveiling Planetary Space as Archive / ROSA BARBA

201Attitudes of Attunement: Making Sound and Image on an Urbanizing Planet / JOSHUA BONNETTA, J. P. SNIADECKI

211A Different World Around the Corner: Cinema and Planetary Urbanization / CHRISTIAN SCHMID

225The (Unstable) Scales of Cinema and Planetary Urbanization / ANA VAZ

235Beyond Disappearance: Testimonies at the Margins of Planetary Urbanization / HIRA NABI

245Blinded by the Light: Beyond Enlightenment Thinking in Cinema and Planetary Urbanization / CHRYSTEL OLOUKOI

257Homo Urbanus: A Human Reading of Planetary Urbanization / LOUISE LEMOINE, ILA BEKA

269Afterword / NITIN BATHLA, SILVIA CIPELLETTI, MARKUS LAHTEENMAKI, KLEARJOS E. PAPANICOLAOU

271Multimedia links

272Imprint

275Cinematic Stills

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ISBN:

3-9861216-2-5