Spaces with Artificial Memory

This is the screenshot from Gaspar Noe's 'Irreversible' film. I have suddenly remembered about this film when started to look at the tunnels, and wondering why is it that they give me such a strong feeling. And then I realised.
I've seen this film about three or four years ago and still it is the only movie, that i can recall from the depth of my memory, and remember every second of it. It certainly gave me one of the strongest impressions i have ever had after watching a film. It also is to do with the story being so real, it could have happen to anyone. And there we are, it is since then, that i have my almost superstitious fear of the tunnels.
And that is exactly why i am unconsciously drawn to them (it seems this way anyway), as you have to face your fear in order to get read of it.

taken from here: http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/?q=node/783

The location of the tunnel, according to the internet source is in Paris: Buttes Chaumont, Paris 19, Paris, France (the subway station). 

Spaces with Artificial Memory

It turned out to be quite strange to be visiting the 'Artificial Memory' places. Obviously, it depends on the scene of the film that has been filmed here or there. In this case the funny house with a 'flying door' and the one next to it are the ones where the two gangs of Guy Ritchie's 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' had  monstrous gun fight. But strange enough, the place does not have much to it. The atmosphere might have been cleaned out by the busy market next door or the fancy Paul Smith boutique, instead of 'MINICABS' like it is in the movie...

from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: Park Lane, Borough and the screenshot from the film of course

 London Bridge Station:

read about the fire on Tooley Street in 1861:
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/AnniversaryTooleyStreetFire.asp

photos by Maris E. Skujins


Seems, like I am being drawn toward the tunnels and the sense of fear much more than to 'film spots' with their artificial memory. I think, for the rest of the research that would have to be the spaces with real atmosphere or with a very convincing and believed one.
So London tunnels, here i come!

Video Research: Polansky's Repulsion

17:30-19:00
28:32-30:12

'Untitled' the film

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'I am a kino-eye. I am a builder. I have placed you, whom I have created today, in an extraordinary room which did not exist until now when I also created it.'(Dziga Vertov)

Many designers and architects nowadays mainly design for the pleasure of the eye, making buildings that have turned into image products detached from existential depth and sincerity. But to understand, to situate ourselves into the space, we need to feel it, to feel its atmosphere and have our emotions echoed back to us. But, ofcourse, every person feels himself differently in the same space.

In my project ‘Untitled’ I am bringing you to the exploration of the site (Canterbury West station) from the way I saw it. This film has its own atmosphere, very different from what the station is like. I am exploring the site as a space of compression, speed, loud noises and crowd that I had to face. I am looking at three phobias: xenophobia, claustrophobia and phonophobia. And now my site is my film. 

This film creates the fusion of space and time, where architecture participates in the very emotion of the film, and as Anthony Vidler said, it does not surround anymore, but enters the experience as present. The audience can only experience it when I decide so, as I am the creator of this site. It became a spatial proposal when I have started to draw into the video with my diagrams, that show the spatial tension of phobias between the site, its inhabitants and the operator. The two-dimensionality of the picture is being extended in depth by the fourth dimension-time.