URBAN MOVIES 2013

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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Organized by the Urban Studies Network (VUB-EhB)