We warmly
invite you to the “URBAN MOVIES” film screenings on the VUB campus. .
URBAN
MOVIES are organized for different educational programmes: Urban Studies
(4Cities), Urban Cultures (POLIS), Criminology (profile crime and the city),
Urban Planning (STer*), Landscape Architecture, and Social Geography. Every
movie is introduced by one of the lecturers of these programmes.
Students/researchers
from other disciplines are welcome too!
Tuesday 8 October 2013, 18:00-20:00
MODERN TIMES
Charles
Chaplin, 1936
Charlie
Chaplin’s “Modern Times”, an entertainment piece at the surface, also serves as
a political commentary criticizing industrialization (Fordism, Taylorism).
Plot
summary: www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/
Introduction
by Prof. Dr. Eric Corijn (Cosmopolis - VUB)
Tuesday 15 October 2013, 18:00-20:00
SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES
[DOCU]
William H.
Whyte, 1980
An original
film studying how people use urban spaces. Why do some open spaces ‘work’ and
others don’t? This classic 1980 study of New York's plazas started a
mini-revolution in urban planning and design.
Plot
summary: www.imdb.com/title/tt1778327/
Introduction
by Pol Ghekiere (Landscape architecture, EhB)
Tuesday 12 November 2013, 18:00-20:00
PLAYTIME
Jacques
Tati, 1967
Monsieur
Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the
maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets.
Plot
summary: www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136/
Introduction
by Prof. Dr. Els Enhus (Criminology - VUB)
Tuesday 19 November 2013, 18:00-20:00
LA HAINE
Mathieu
Kassovitz, 1995
A gritty
and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in Paris’
banlieues
Plot
summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Introduction
by Mattias De Backer (Criminology – VUB)
Tuesday 26 November 2013, 18:00-20:00
THE HUMAN SCALE [DOCU]
Andreas
Dalsgaard (based on the work of Jan Gehl architects), 2012
The Human
Scale meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It
questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put
people into the center of our planning.
Plot
summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2414454/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Discussion
with Jens Aerts (STeR* - VUB)
All movies
are English spoken or subtitled.
VENUE
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Campus Oefenplein
Pleinlaan 2
- 1050 Brussels – AULA Q.B
(attention,
the room has been changed from Q.D to Q.B!)
REGISTRATION
Free of
charge, no registration needed
CONTACT
Jessica van de Ven
jessica.van.de.ven@vub.ac.be
02.629.37.41
FACEBOOK
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Movies 2013 on FACEBOOK.
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Organized by the Urban Studies Network (VUB-EhB)
