• Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno's Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno

    Author(s):
    Susan Larson (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Hispanophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MS Screen Arts and Culture, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, Urban Cultural Studies
    Subject(s):
    Documentary films--Production and direction, Documentary films--Authorship, Motion pictures, Spanish, Urban geography
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Documentary filmmaking, Spanish cinema, Urban studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/tx4j-8629
    Abstract:
    If we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becomes a ‘hybrid of the natural and the cultural, the environmental and the social’ (Kaika and Syngedouw; 122). This essay argues that markedly different ways of imagining monumental public spaces and the relationship between nature and the city have arisen since the economic crisis of 2008 in Spain. Urban cultures create opportunities to imagine these new social, material and symbolic transformations and are exemplified in the documentary films of Víctor Moreno Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018). Considered together, the two films capture the scale, depth and three-dimensionality of spaces that are made up of both organic and non-organic material flows in ways that encourage us to question some of our basic assumptions about the urban.
    Notes:
    This article is in both English and Spanish.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.26754/ojs_zarch/23410531
    Publisher:
    University of Zaragoza
    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Journal:
    ZARCH: Journal in Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
    Volume:
    16
    Page Range:
    12 - 31
    ISSN:
    2341-0531
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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