2012 - 2013 EVENTS

DARKNESS + ARCHITECTURE

Pizza and drinks will be provided during each film screening, which will take place in 504 Diana (Barnard Campus). Each film will be briefly introduced and connected to its relevance in architectural theory and design. This film series is a public supplement to Professor Peter Zuspan's Special Topics course, "Darkness & Architecture." Please join us!

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
WED, February 13th, 8:00pm
A love story between a French actress and a Japanese architect in Hiroshima serves as the backdrop to a discussion on destruction, war, and memory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ8p_dd84ns
**film will contain subtitles**

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
WED, February 20th, 8:00pm
After staging a coup and liberating themselves from a mental institution, a remote community of little people confronts the grotesque and nightmarish reality of modernity while reversing the status quo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSB5da8vja0
**film will contain subtitles**

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
WED, March 6th, 8:00pm
More of a mood piece than a horror film, this movie takes place on the outskirts of society where an aging slaughterhouse becomes the setting for a crazed family that a group of teenagers encounters while on a roadtrip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3981DoINw

Safe (1995)
WED, April 10th, 8:00pm
This film revolves around a woman who becomes sick from chemicals, perhaps psychosomatically. It relates to issues of the environment, the nature of enclosure, and anxiety from modernism's associative cleanliness. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/

Take Shelter (2011) (Event Photos)
WED, April 17th, 8:00pm
A series of terrifying, apocalyptic dreams about an encroaching storm leads a man to obsessively build a storm shelter in his backyard. Increasing tensions within his family and community correlate to his private fears of imminent disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5U4TtYpKIc