How Architecture Speaks Through Cinema

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Jean-Luc Godard, through his films, talks about architecture almost as easily as he talks about cinema itself. In honor of the nouvelle vague icon, who passed away today at the age of 91, we revisit How Architecture Speaks Through Cinema.

There are several ways of making films. Like Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson, who make music. Like Sergei Eisenstein, who paints. Like Stroheim, who wrote sound novels in silent days. Like Alain Resnais, who sculpts. And like Socrates, Rossellini I mean, who creates philosophy. The cinema, in other words, can be everything at once, both judge and litigant. — Jean-Luc Godard [1] 

Within Godard's list of ways to make films, we can add another: cinema as architecture. The interaction between cinema and architecture - "the inherent architecture of cinematic expression and the cinematographic essence of architectural experience" is a complex, often multifaceted dialogue between both disciplines. [2] 

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Cite: Baratto, Romullo. "How Architecture Speaks Through Cinema" [Como a arquitetura fala com o cinema] 14 Sep 2022. ArchDaily. (Trans. Valletta, Matthew) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/872754/how-architecture-speaks-through-cinema> ISSN 0719-8884

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