Urban encounters: Stasis, movement, editing and memory in contemporary cinema

Urban encounters: Stasis, movement, editing and memory in contemporary cinema

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This article employs BODY LOTION a comparative approach to connect cities and cinemas by discussing the presence of the urban space in the films Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, 1995), Head-On (Gegen die Wand, Fatih Akin,2004), Import Export (Ulrich Seidl, 2007) and What Time Is It There? (Ni Neibian Jidian, Tsai Ming-liang, 2001).Shot mainly on location, these films are structured upon a movement between two cities, located in two different countries, overlay set and tackle questions of time and space and the fabrication of memory.A focus on their interconnectedness enables me to turn away from usual centre-periphery schemes and propose a new, and more complex, geography for recent and contemporary cinema.