Studio 29

Studio 35mm; #federationsquare

Hamid A. Khalili

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90143 Studio D, and ABPL90115 Studio E.

Studio Description

Studio 35mm is an architectural filmmaking studio; and provides students with appropriate methods, tools and skills to learn the cinematic strategies for narrating architectural spaces, atmospheres and ideas. The process of working in this studio involves research into film and architectural theory, weekly filming and editing exercises and. Studio 35mm aims to employ the power of the moving image to study, dissect, communicate and promote architecture.

Studio Outcome

This semester Studio 35mm provides students with the opportunity of making a film about the modern piazza of Melbourne; Federation Square. Within the framework of the studio each student will dissect an urban, architectural, narratological or phenomenological feature of Federation Square through the lens of a short film. All the short films will be put together as episodes (or parts) of a collective architectural featurette.

Apart from the short film, each student will be asked to contribute to the studio by:

• reflective journal
• a series of analytical drawings

Studio Leaders

HAMID KHALILI is a researcher and an architectural design studio leader at the University of Melbourne. Hamid has practiced and taught both architectural design and film in Europe and the Middle East. He has taught architectural design studios and subjects concerning architectural theory at MSD and has been involved, as a studio leader and guest lecturer, in various courses and subjects engaging with the reciprocity between new media and architecture in Europe, Australia, and the Middle East.

Readings & References

• Benjamin, Walter. 2008. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Translated by J. A. Underwood. London: Penguin.
• Bordwell, David Jay, and Kristin Thompson. 2010. Film Art : an Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Bruno, Giuliana. 2002. Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film. New York: Verso, 2002.
• Cairns, Graham, François Penz, and Holly Rose. 2013. The Architecture of the Screen: Essays in Cinematographic Space. Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013.
• Deleuze, Gilles. 1989. Cinema 2: the Time-image. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1989.
• Katz, Steven. 2004. Cinematic Motion: a Workshop for Staging Scenes. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions.
• Koeck, Richard. 2012. Cine-scapes Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis,.
• Pallasmaa, Juhani. 2007. The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema. Helsinki: Rakennustieto, 2007.
• Penz, François. 2017. Cinematic-Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture. New York: Routledge. Perec, Georges. 2008. Species of space and other pieces. New York: Penguin.
• Tawa, Michael. 2011. Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2011.

Schedule Mondays 15:15-18:15 and Thursdays 15:15-18:15 in MSD Room 216

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