charlotte crofts: accessing cinema heritage
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Presentation delivered at the ARLIS UK and Ireland Conference, Bristol, 2013TRANSCRIPT
‘“Old Wine in New Bottles”: Researching Cinema Heritage
Through Pervasive Media’
Dr Charlotte Crofts University of the West of England
Accessing Cinema Memories Through Pervasive Media
[email protected] @charlottecrofts
Dr Charlotte Crofts Digital Cultures Research Centre
University of the West of England (Bristol, UK)
The Curzon Memories App
The Curzon Memories App
The Curzon Memories App
QR Codes
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Back Row
https://vimeo.com/44960163
The Curzon Memories App
Projection Hero
Projection Hero
http://curzonproject.wordpress.com/videos
Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010)
“…there were certain things that were meaningful, exciting, strange about San Francisco and about places in general that were better told through maps than through words. For example if I tell you there were 99 murders in SF in 2008, that’s not very exciting, but if I actually show you the maps with the murders mostly on the east side of the city, kind of scattered like buckshot across the geography and you can imagine the particulars of place, and you can see that it happened here, and it happened here and it happened here, it’s much more immediate and visceral and affecting.”
Cinema City: Muybridge inventing movies, Hitchcock
making Vertigo
GIS Map - Know Your Place
http://maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace/
Whiteladies Picture House
Whiteladies Picture House
Whiteladies Picture House
Lost Cinemas of Castle Park
Lost Cinemas of Castle Park
The Queens Picture House 1910-1933
The Odeon 1938-present
“What, the curtains?”
VALIE EXPORT Tap & Touch Cinema (1968) Dennis Göttel http://apertura.hu/2008/nyar/goettel, citing Laura Marks, The Skin of the Film
Lost Cinemas of Castle Park
Lost Cinemas of Castle Park Olympia / Tatler 1910-1963
Empire Theatre 1893-1963
Kings 1910-1982
The Olympia / Tatler 1910-1963
“I saw my first sub-titled picture shortly after I arrived. It was at the Tatler, an art house disguised as an exploitation flea pit near Old Market – a 1939 Claude Autant-Lara comedy called Fric-Frac starring Fernandel, Arletty and Michel Simon. Not long after that I saw my first neo-realist film there, Rossellini's Paisa” (Philip French).
Magic Moments
Armchair Mode
SoLoMo (Social / Local / Mobile)
Locative Experience Design • Emphasis on audio allows location to be the screen • “Dialectical montage” / frisson between physical
location, media content and user interface. • “Magic moments” (Reid et a.l) – when the app
interacts with location • “Arm chair” mode needs to be equally compelling • “SoLoMo” - Location-based engagement • Social media / ability to comment / add memories • Call to action vs “lost impulse”
Future Developments • Digital Fleapit – portable Projection Hero,
Encounters 2013
• Cinemapping – future collaborations: – Comparative Study of Bristol /Liverpool
University, Museum of Liverpool / Merseyside GIS
– HOMER / Cinema Treasures / mapping the world
• REACT ‘Objects Sandbox’ 2014…
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Digital Fleapit
• flea·pit n. Chiefly British Slang. A cheap or squalid theatre.
• flea cir·cus n. A miniature novelty show of performing fleas.
Dr Charlotte Crofts
[email protected] http://www.eyefullproductions.co.uk/curzon
www.cinemmapping.co.uk @charlottecrofts #curzonmemoriesapp #lostcinemas @cinemapping