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Film / Video
07.26.12: Enrique Ramirez
Journey’s End: Wim Wenders in TexasOn Places, Enrique Ramirez explores the making of Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas, and how the strange and atmospheric film captures the elusive essence of Houston.
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01.03.12: Michael P. Branch
The Hills Are AliveOn Places, Michael Branch reflects on how deeply photography and film shape our landscape aesthetics (and how much he detests the Alpine-worshipping The Sound of Music).
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10.27.11: Adam Harrison Levy
Urbanized: An Interview with Gary HustwitAn interview with filmmaker Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, Objectified and the new documentary Urbanized, which opens this weekend in New York.
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10.10.11: Enrique Ramirez
I Watch Slacker to Read Austin in the OriginalOn Places, architectural historian and Texas native Enrique Ramirez assesses Richard Linklater's Slacker and recalls Austin in an earlier and less self-conscious era.
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08.25.10: Center for Urban Pedagogy
The Good, the Bad, and the EmptyOn Places, watch The Good, the Bad, and the Empty, the latest video from the Brooklyn-based Center for Urban Pedagogy, which explores the community politics of vacant lots.
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05.04.10: James Sanders
Adventure Playground: John V. Lindsay and the Transformation of Modern New YorkOn Places, James Sanders on the transformation of New York City that began in the Sixties under Mayor John Lindsay — the reinvention of the city from a workaday zone to a scenic setting for urban play, an "adventure playground."
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04.26.10: Barbara Penner
The Wedding at Cana: A Vision by Peter GreenawayOn Places, architectural historian Barbara Penner explores Peter Greenaway's digital video installation of Veronese's The Wedding at Cana, the latest in the series "Nine Classic Paintings Revisited," shown at the recent Venice Biennale.
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02.01.10: Keith Eggener
Lethal T-Square: Architecture, Violence, RenewalRobert Moses is often compared with Baron Haussman. Keith Eggener argues that he can be compared as well with the vigilante-architect played by Charles Bronson in Death Wish.
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