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[Film] Urbanité/s (version française) Urbanity/ies (English version)

2013
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Abstract

Le film explore le concept d’urbanité à travers l’observation des villes du Monde, tout particulièrement en Chine. Ce projet théorique ambitieux propose aussi un intense dialogue avec les « villes invisibles » d’Italo Calvino. Il s’agit enfin d’un film-manifeste, une contribution à l’invention d’un langage cinématographique contemporain pertinent pour le travail scientifique. This film explores the concept of urbanity through the observation of the city throughout the World, especially in China. This ambitious theoretical project establishes also an intense dialogue with Italo Calvino’s ‘invisible cities’. Finally, the film is a manifesto, a contribution to a novel, contemporary cinematographic language, relevant to scientific research.

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2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/2285f6f8-2218-4eae-97c9-a3af095fa199

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Art film

An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film, is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", and containing "unconventional or highly symbolic content". Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing "formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films".

Film

A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and the art form that is the result of it.

Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets; and academic criticism by film scholars who are informed by film theory and are published in academic journals. Academic film criticism rarely takes the form of a review; instead it is more likely to analyse the film and its place in the history of its genre or in the whole of film history.

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[Film] Urbanité/s (version française) Urbanity/ies (English version)

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