MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu Prof. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu 2

1. MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu Prof. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu 2 MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

2. Since the beginning of motion pictures, architecture frequently has played a lead role. Buildings and context of the movies contribute support to character development. Consider "The Truman Show." In the film, Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, lives in the idyllic American town and has a perfect life. But he finds out that his life is not real; instead it's part of a long-running TV show with millions of viewers who have watched Truman grow from a child to a man. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

3. architectural subjects in movies Space and architecture always need to be firmly established within the landscape, the city and the real or fictitious society. The place in which the story is set is crucial: on a skyscaper, in a village cottage, a castle, a palace at the bottom of the sea or in other space. MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

4. movies which use a defined city as background for the story • movies which use a defined regions of cities as background for the story • movies which use defined streets and squares as background for the story • Building typologies in movies, Offices • Building typologies in movies, Hospitals • Building typologies in movies, Schools • Building typologies in movies, Malls • Building typologies in movies, Hotels • Building typologies in movies, Houses • Building typologies in movies, Terminals / stations • Building typologies in movies, Jails architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

5. architectural subjects in movies Filmmakers, with the help of production designers, art directors, location managers and countless other members of cast and crew, insert architecture into their films. On a practical level, architecture sets a scene, conveying information about plot and character while contributing to the overall feel of a movie. In more discreet ways, filmmakers can use their cameras to make statements about the built or unbuilt environment or use that environment to comment metaphorically on any of a variety of subjects, from the lives of the characters in their films to the nature of contemporary society. MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

6. architectural subjects in movies The Fountainhead, King Vidor (Director) 1949 - Gary COOPER Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking. He seems unemployable but finally lands a job with like-minded Henry Cameron, however within a few years Cameron drinks himself to death, warning Roark that the same fate awaits unless he compromises his ideals. Roark is determined to retain his artistic integrity at all costs. MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

7. architectural subjects in movies Subsequent film spaces and film architecture developed from the Expressionist space-cell with its athmosphere of exaggrated performances, fearful social mood, dramatic architecture and light, fused into one pictorial unity. Every great film director has tried to create this unity. Often the chosen SPACE, BUILDING or CITY, becomes the LEADING CHARACTER in the film. (Hans Dieter Schaal, (2000) Spaces of the Psyche in German Expressionist Film, ARCHITECTURE and FIM 2) MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

8. architectural subjects in movies Metropolis, Key Largo, Sunset Boulevard, The Silence, Viridiana, Manhattan, Roma, Subway, Batman, Psyche, Rear Window, Rebecca, The Blue Angel, The Last Laugh, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction Blade Runner Rear Window MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari • Crew: • Directed:Robert Wiene, 1919 • Prod co: Decla-Bioshop • prod: Erich Pommer • assoc prod: Rudolf Melnert • sc:Carl Meyer, Hans Janowitz, from a story by Hans Janowitz • photo: Willy Hameister • art dir: Hermann Warm, Walter Rohrig, Walter Reimann • cost: Walter Reimann • length: 4682 ft (approx. 78 minutes) • German title:Das Kabinett des Dr Caligari • GB title:The Cabinet of Dr Caligari • Cast: • Werner Krauss (Dr Caligari) • Conrad Veidt(Cesare • Friedrich Feher (Francis) • Lil Dagover(Jane) • Hans H. von Twardowski (Alan) • Rudolf Lettinger (Dr Olsen) • Rudolf Klein-Rogge (captured murderer) architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

10. What is incontrovertible is that The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is an Expressionist film. But to what extent? Expressionism was a movement in the arts beginning before World War 1. It involved painters whose work was characterized by subjectivism, emotionalism and anti-naturalism. This is significant because Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Rohrig, who designed The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, were themselves Expressionist artists. In literature, Expressionism embraced the themes of 'alienation, anti-authoritarianism, pacifism, salvation through love, and hostility to bourgeois society'. Some of these elements were certainly present in the original script but were negated by the framing device. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

11. The town that surrounds the cabinet, as well as the fairgound outside the town, are no different in their architectural language from interiors of the cabinet. When viewing the movie today, one is irritated by the radical artwork; perhaps it detracts from the straightforward storytelling method to which we have become accustomed. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

12. The visual style of the film was distinctly Expressionist - with painted backcloths, dominated by curves and cubes, deliberately distorted perspectives, and furniture unnaturally elongated. The effect was to disorientate the viewer, and it was enhanced further by the Expressionist style of acting - with Werner Krass' top-hated and bespectacled Caligari, a shuffling, gesticulating, totally malign presence; and Conrad Veidt's somnambulist, a slender, hollow-eyed, ashen-faced, living corpse. There were only a few totally Expressionist films like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, which drew themes, styles and visual motifs directly from the movement, but elements of Expressionism in art direction and the plastic, externalized acting style it fostered nevertheless became distinguishing features of the German cinema until the late Twenties. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

13. Expressionists • Worked nervously and quickly as if gripped by a fever. Sharp points, spikes, hectic curves, signs like formulas, archaic masks, crazy diagrams worthy of seismographic earthquaqe readouts, everything whirted around and fell like sediment on the screens. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

14. Over the years considerable attention has been devoted to the political, psychological and artistic importance to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, but only recently has its perhaps most obvious importance - as horror film - been more fully appreciated. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

15. It is non-realism that irritates: the exaggerated style, the surrealism that wavers between African village huts and kindergarten parties , smoke filled bars, and stone age cave drawings. But we are still fascinated by striking artificiality of this world. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

16. The architecture of Dr. Caligari consits of narrow, high rooms and lanes, inside and out. • Evertything is oblique and inclined. • The walls are covered with strange signs and acute-angle figures. • The labyrinth is completely enclosed and seemingly inescable. • Windows are no longer windows and trees are no longer trees. This architecture holds its occupants tight within its graps, the walls built to fulfill this command. There is no chance of escape. architectural subjects in movies MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM

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18. architectural subjects in movies • QUIZ- 13.02.2007 • Questions; • What is the most specific characteristics of architectural element in the movie “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”? • What is the visual style of the movie ? MIM 482 E 2006-2007 SPRING TERM