2021 SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2021


12:00 PM — 12:30 PM


INTRODUCTIONS


Welcome Greetings


David Ferguson


Dean, R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture & Planning, Ball State University


Overview of the Symposium


James Kerestes


Co-Chair, 2021 Architecture & Film Symposium


12:30 PM — 2:00 PM


Panel 1.

DOMESTICITY




Moderator:

Zachary Tate Porter


University of Nebraska Lincoln


Strategy, Tactics and Victories of the Everyday in My Architect, Exhibition and Koolhaas HouseLife


Marianna Janowicz


University College London, UK


Architectural Filth and the Heroic Passivism of Farhadi's Salesman


Vahid Vahdat


Washington State University


Embodied At-Homeness: Reflections on Dwelling Experiences Framed in Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story


Roohid Novinrooz


M Moser Associates


Suburban Horror Story: Occupying the Interstitial Spaces of a Home


James Kerestes


Ball State University


2:00 PM — 2:15 PM


Break


2:15 PM — 3:45 PM


Panel 2.

MOVING IMAGES




Moderator:

Maryam Mansoori


Washington State University


Posthuman Cartographies


Farzam Yazdanseta, Eva Perez de Vega


On Reading: Wet Dreams


Karen Lange, Nathanael Ramos, et al.


Pedagogy of the Fourth Wall


Kevin Marblestone, Emily Whitbeck


Foundation Design Video


Thomas Forget, William Philemon, et al.


This is a Sick City


JP Maruszczak, Roger Connah


Intricate Irritations


Gonzalo Vaillo, Gabriel Esquivel, et al.


Mech[Animal]Sitelessness Beta


Branden Hudak, Ebrahim Poustinchi


3:45 PM — 5:00 PM


Panel 3.

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA




Moderator:

Jimenez Lai


Bureau Spectacular


The Cultural Impasse of Past Futures
and Future Pasts in Brazil and Westworld


Will Fu


Princeton University


Fleeting Structures, Vanishing Trajectories


Marina Montresor


ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Get Pissed, Destroy: Landmarks, City-Spaces, and ‘Punkspectations’ in Alex Cox’s Repo Man and Sid and Nancy


Marko Djurdjic


York University, Canada


6:00 PM — 7:00 PM




KEYNOTE

The Sensual Character of the Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt


Graham Harman


SCI-Arc


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2021


12:00 PM — 1:30 PM


Panel 4.

MEMORY, IDENTITY, & SPACE




Moderator:

Martin Summers


University of Kentucky


Mirrors of Mirror: Architecture as the Expanded Picture


Elena Rocchi


Arizona State University


Memoirs of Spaces: Cinematic Disposition of Space-Induced Retrospections into Cultural and Spatial Hegemony of Experiences


C. Aparnaa, Sparsh Patlan


CEPT University, India


Infrastitial Scenes


Doreen Bernath, Sarah Mills


Leeds Beckett University, UK


Bebop in the Underbelly: Race, Space, and Embodiment in Paris Blues (1961)


J. English Cook


New York University


1:30 PM — 3:00 PM


Panel 5.

PECHA KUCHA




Moderator:

James Kerestes


Ball State University


Tenebrous Poetics of Cityscapes


C. Aparnaa, Sparsh Patlan


CEPT University, India


The Gravity of Perception: Unearthing the Subterranean Films of Gordon Matta-Clark


Alan Webb


University of Toronto, Canada


Cultural Narratives Unfolded


Sarah Ra


Oklahoma State University


A lot more than just Picturesque: Exploring Functions of Landscapes in Films


Prachi Nadkarni


Indian Education Society, India


Representation, Symbols, and Dreams: From Modern Architecture to the Modern City


Isabella Leite Trindade


Ryerson University, Canada


From Object to Building: Space, Form, and Movement


Jason Scroggin


University of Kentucky


Shelter Shift


Jessica Colangelo, Charles Sharpless


University of Arkansas


Kinetoscopic Vision


George Themistokleous


De Montfort University, UK


3:00 PM — 3:15 PM


Break


3:15 PM — 4:45 PM


Panel 6.

SPATIO-CINEMATIC ANALYSIS




Moderator:

Janice Shimizu


Ball State University


The Crisis of Authenticity: Vertigo and the Seagram Building


Andrew Gleeson


Iowa State University


Pedagogical and Epistemological Dialogues in Teaching Architecture as a Means Towards Cinematic Design


Katarina Andjelkovic


Atelier AG Andjelkovic


The Eye of the Camera


Patrick Till


University of Texas at Austin


Permanent Sets: Harry Oliver and the Introduction of Filmic Grammar to the Built Environment


Dave Gottwald


University of Idaho


5:00 PM — 5:45 PM



FILM SCREENING

Uppland


Edward Lawrenson, Killian Doherty

5:45 PM — 6:00 PM



CLOSING REMARKS


To be Continued..


Vahid Vahdat


Co-Chair, 2021 Architecture & Film Symposium


Note: All times are Eastern Standard Time.