RAM Gallery
20th anniversary-exhibition

November 19th 2009 - February 14th 2010

active/inactive until February 14th 2010

(the impurest of all constructive acts):

An Architectural Ruin – the ultimate white cube.

15 student films challenge architecture’s traditional

limitations and dwell in expanded comprehensions

of time/space/place relationships.

Vernissage Thusday February 4th at 7pm

ARCHITECTURE AND FILM      

Fall 2009          

MORPHOLOGY

OF

BODY AND

SPACE

# 3

Final Week – 2009.11.03. - preparations

The production

                   and representation

                                of architectural space

                                                                                                                      on film

The final task – week from 09. – 13.11.2009:

The production and representation of architectural space on film

• View again the video sketches produced by you and try to find an interest for abstract spatial values content within (parts or sequences of) those clips.

• The abstract spatial values are spatial information’s that go beyond the notion or representation of ‘known’ architectural space and thus are within this week to be regarded as NOT of an abstract but as of a figurative value with which we try to work further on in order to produce architectural space on film – a spatial reading that only can be produced in film.

• Write on Monday a short text describing the ‘abstract but now figurative spatial values’ you see in your original clips and how you think you would start your experimental work on the search for a new architectural space – how you’d like to try to enhance those spatial values by digitally editing your original clips.

• Import your clips into premier and start the experiment – the production of architectural space on film. Be aware that the space has to be produced in that film and that it also has to be represented as such in that film… simply through the fact that it only can occur in your film…

Final Review 13.11.2009 – handing in:

For the final review you produce a short text (A4 and in 3 copies) on:

• morphology of body (your reading on the specific properties of;).
• morphology of space (your reading on the specific properties of;).
• duration (your reading on how / what the subject produces in your film).

• a short, precise argumentation on how architectural space is produced in the video.
• a description on how architectural space is represented in the video.

And you produce a film poster (A2 mounted on Kappa-plates provided by the studio) containing:

• the content of the above discussion in text and images.
• start your text with how architectural space is produced and represented in your film.
• present your view on the morphology of body and space.
• explain your thoughts on how duration is active in your clip.

• form of the film poster (A2 landscape-format):

Video title (name your video)

2009, video (f.eks. dv or mixed media), 4 min 55 sec

Text and illustrations (or still pictures from the film)

Students name

Architecture & Film; Morphology of Body and Space # 3 – AHO Fall 2009

The final experimental video film (as QuickTime movie 640 x 480):

• the video should last between 2 and 5 minutes.
• add a title to the video (get the title clips from the premier file stored in the SAM-folder).
• export and convert the video as explained in the course-manual.
• store the video in the proper folder on SAM.

Biography

Rolf Gerstlauer is professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and runs together with his partner a small atelier in Oslo. Studio Gerstlauer Molne’s works are on architecture, film, photography, dance/choreography and include now also noise-production. As an architect Gerstlauer has a love/hate relationship with the white cube, yet as a constructor and maker the extended exploded/imploded white cube represents the base for all of his creative works. Earlier confrontations with the white cube include works like: Momentum 2000 – nordic biennale of contemporary art Moss (with Moment Architecture), Oslo Kunsthall – Oslo Art hall 2000-2003, Contiguity 1999 – AHO, Architecture as Infrastructure – National Museum for Architecture Oslo (with StudioB3), ‘Timeroomchamber’ - Uri/Switzerland and ‘Headhunting’ - DogA/Dansens hus Oslo.