Projektanci czasoprzestrzeni. Modernistyczna architektura w kadrze filmowym
The Designers of Spacetime. Modernist Architecture in Film

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses selected inter-war artistic projects in which architecture and film intersect. The activity of the group of modernist artists called Praesens serves as a starting point for a presentation of modernism as both a synthesis of the arts and as a space of interdisciplinary artistic dialogues. Several issues are addressed here to capture the relations between film and architecture, namely: the involvement of architects in stage design (as exemplified by Szymon Syrkus and Andrzej Pronaszko), collaboration between architects and film directors (Robert Mallet-Stevens, Marcel L’Herbier), the production of photomontages, the practice of modelling stage designs on architecture as well as designing architectural structures inspired by stage designs. Another question discussed is the new language of architecture exemplified by such terms as the design of movement or ‘spacetime’. These terms drawn from the language of the film were both commonly used by architects and widely commented on by Ricciotto Canudo, an Italian theoretician of cinema. Moreover, this paper recalls the biographies of architects who, after having graduated in architecture, devoted their lives and careers to stage design, entering a new field of artistic activity.

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