FILM/ARCHITECTURE/NARRATIVE

Exhibition: 21 April - 27 May
Events: Saturday 21 April and Saturday 19 May, 14.00, FREE

Film/Architecture/Narrative is an exhibition of street-based architectural interventions that explore
the rituals of daily life and the stories we discover in the city. The projects also explore the way film - such a powerful cultural medium - can be engaged in the design and communication of architecture.

Film/Architecture/Narrative displays recent work from a Design Unit - directed by Jonathan Mosley
and Lee Stickells - within the Bachelor of Architecture programme at Bristol, UWE. Staff and students have been investigating relationships between film techniques and architecture,
especially in the construction of narratives.The work on display comes from the Unit's initial project to design an architectural intervention in Spitalfields, East London. Springing from intensive site studies and documentation of daily life in the area, the interventions were designed to alter, enhance or respond to the ritual behaviour of particular street users.

To explore their designs and to communicate them, students produced large scale models as well as a video or image sequence. The architecture created is imaginative, responds to the activities of daily life and is designed to be experienced by the public.The methods of
communicating the work are intended to be accessible, engaging and three dimensional - using
media that are well understood by many audiences.

To coincide with and give insight into the Film/Architecture/Narrative exhibition, a small group of the students whose films are being shown will lead walking tours of the exhibition. Taking place on two Saturday afternoons - 21 April and 19 May - the informal walking tours allow the students to offer their own perspectives and insight on the ideas within the exhibition. Tours are free and there is no need to book.

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