Paris, capital of the 19th century

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[b][size=6]Paris, capital of the 19th century.[/size][/b]

[i](2010, black and white, sound, 10 min.)[/i]

[b]A short movie by Benjamin Bardou[/b][/center]

[size=4]In his book "Paris, capital of the 19th century" the German philosopher Walter Benjamin attempts to outline a comprehensive interpretation of the 19th century along with its dubious modernity.
He argues that "capitalism was a natural phenomenon which plunged Europe into a new, dream-filled sleep". Therefore, in Paris, capital – through Haussmann's work - reshapes urban space and time.
All this brings about a new experience for town dwellers, a feeling very well described by Baudelaire in his poems – the large town shock.
In his "Eternity by the Stars" Blanqui describes it a hellish vision, an endless return of the same.
At this time, new reproduction techniques emerge, such as lithography, photography and film-making, which enable us to understand the traumatic shock of urbanism by including it into their own devices (a film, after all, is a series of 24 shocks per minute!).
As these techniques acquired art status, they create an urban and world-encompassing fantasy (by means of sample-sites such as the bourgeois interior, passages, department stores) and succeed in producing a perceptible and reassuring image.
In short, they become phantasmagoric.
This film offers a study of these fantasmagories and tries to show that we can still shoot the ruins of Paris of the nineteenth century with a video camera.[/size]

[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_01_INTERIEUR_1004.jpg[/img]
[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_02_PASSAGES_1002.jpg[/img]
[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_04_VILLE_0741.jpg[/img]
[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_04_VILLE_0099.jpg[/img]

[video]http://vimeo.com/17166870[/video]

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Paris, capital of the 19th century

[center][img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Affiche_Paris.jpg[/img]

[b][size=6]Paris, capital of the 19th century.[/size][/b]

[i](2010, black and white, sound, 10 min.)[/i]

[b]A short movie by Benjamin Bardou[/b][/center]

[size=4]In his book "Paris, capital of the 19th century" the German philosopher Walter Benjamin attempts to outline a comprehensive interpretation of the 19th century along with its dubious modernity.
He argues that "capitalism was a natural phenomenon which plunged Europe into a new, dream-filled sleep". Therefore, in Paris, capital – through Haussmann's work - reshapes urban space and time.
All this brings about a new experience for town dwellers, a feeling very well described by Baudelaire in his poems – the large town shock.
In his "Eternity by the Stars" Blanqui describes it a hellish vision, an endless return of the same.
At this time, new reproduction techniques emerge, such as lithography, photography and film-making, which enable us to understand the traumatic shock of urbanism by including it into their own devices (a film, after all, is a series of 24 shocks per minute!).
As these techniques acquired art status, they create an urban and world-encompassing fantasy (by means of sample-sites such as the bourgeois interior, passages, department stores) and succeed in producing a perceptible and reassuring image.
In short, they become phantasmagoric.
This film offers a study of these fantasmagories and tries to show that we can still shoot the ruins of Paris of the nineteenth century with a video camera.[/size]

[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_01_INTERIEUR_1004.jpg[/img]
[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_02_PASSAGES_1002.jpg[/img]
[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_04_VILLE_0741.jpg[/img]
[img]http://benjaminbardou.free.fr/images/Z_04_VILLE_0099.jpg[/img]

[video]http://vimeo.com/17166870[/video]

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