The hosted architectural documentary on British television: Ian Nairn and the personalization of place
The hosted architectural documentary on British television: Ian Nairn and the personalization of place
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英国电视台主持的建筑纪录片:伊恩·奈恩和场所的个性化
作者:
K. Flanagan
Film and television are uniquely able to convey architectural experience. Through camera movements, editing, framing, tracking through space, and/or isolating details from a larger whole, these moving images produce space. On the one hand they are a decent proxy for the experience of actually being in a place; on the other they provide a representational means of going beyond the capacities of individual experience. Films about architecture can construct the experience of buildings, and can give us new subjective positions from which to consider them. Take, for instance, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s theatrical documentary Antonio Gaudı (1984), a meditative look at the celebrated Catalan architect’s buildings, in particular as they define the visual townscape of Barcelona. Part of what endears the film to critics is its reliance on style and aesthetics to build the Gaudı experience. Dore Ashton writes of Teshigahara’s ‘wonderfully paced rhythmic sequences’ that evince ‘the precision of a good art historian’, such that style matches the demands of content, as when ‘his craftsman’s eye for detail [...] scans with his camera the particulars of Gaudı’s sculptural fantasies’. 1 Linda C. Ehrlich describes the success of the film by way of its voluntary limitations:‘Most of Antonio Gaudı is without any narrative explanation except for the occasional subtitle to identify a building, set to hypnotic music by award winning composer Takemitsu Toru, as well as European dossier