I'm not sure how many of you have had the tremendous joy of spending time with Ed Keller, but I'm and not embarrassed to say that I am in love with him. Well, not sexually, but I am in love with his brain. After seeing him on numerous juries I was finally able to take his seminar/visual studies class last spring. It was all too short and my cinematic aspirations were in no way met, but I was hooked.
Ed is now a full time professor at Sci-Arc (your gain is our loss) but he is teaching an abbreviated class this semester. No surprisingly, many of the same students have returned to audit the class and share in the evocative discourse. One returning student is
Mehmet Bozatli who has started his own film festival which will premiere this fall. Here is some background on the class.
SOURCE MATERIALS for the DRIFT:
R. Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic
Sophie Calle, Double Game
DJ Spooky, Songs of a Dead Dreamer
http://www.argn.com
Cortazar, Hopscotch
Robbe-Grillet, In the Labyrinth
Borges, ‘Death and the Compass,’ ‘Garden of Forking Paths’
Grant Morrison, The Invisibles
Auster, City of Glass
Calvino, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
P.K. Dick, UBIK
Carroll, Alice In Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Alan Moore, Watchmen, V for Vendetta
Roos, Alchemy and Mysticism
Nolan: Memento
Caro + Jeunet: City of Lost Children
Coppola: Conversation
Antonioni: Blowup
DePalma: Blowout
Antonioni: Passenger, Red Desert
Tarkovsky: Stalker
Coppola: Apocalypse Now
Cronenberg: Crash, Videodrome
Wenders: Paris Texas, Lisbon Story
Hopper: Easy Rider
Jarmusch: Mystery Train, Down by Law, Dead Man, Night on Earth
Hitchcock: North by Northwest, Vertigo
Godard: Alphaville
Tati: Playtime
Fincher: The Game, Fight Club
Vertov: Man with a Movie Camera
Moretti: Caro Diario
Pasolini: Mama Roma
Wong Kar Wai: Chungking Express, Fallen Angels
Van Sant: My Own Private Idaho
Von Trier: Element of Crime
Almodovar: All About My Mother
Marker: Sans Soleil
Resnais: The War is Over
Assayas: IRMA VEP
I may never get through this entire list (in part because I can't find a copy of Irma Vep) but I may spend the rest of my life trying.
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I worked on a production of the comedy "The Mystery of Irma Vep" when I was a theatre production technician. Totally different than the movie, though.
hey mark, just discovered you had a school blog...or maybe i knew but i forgot...
anyways, i'm looking forward to cracking the vault and reading about your trips to tejas y thailand, etc.
how're things shaping up for your final year?
-d
You've ruined my next month - Too much good stuff
Got to love the British comics
Grant Morrison, The Invisibles
The Watchmen - Though it is going to be a shitty movie
what can you say about ed... an amazing mind (as stated). as a thesis adviser along with juan azulay, they both blew my mind and helped me reach for something that has been inside for quite some time. the best part about thesis is revisiting it time and time again to hone it into a productive personal journey through architecture. every presentation is just a step in the evolution of my thesis. i've recently picked up the AD "collective intelligence" sept/oct 06 to help me rethink things and am thoroughly enjoying it. as much as ed does assemble a great collection of films and readings, he is equally talented at "reading" his students.
i propose ed be the new director of sciarc, not just mediascapes.
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