Pia Rönicke, Urban Fiction, 2003

Video
Sound, color
Duration: 16 min 40 sec
Edition of 5 (+ 1 A.P.)

Urban Fiction is shaped as a meshwork of allusions and references. The film borrows its style of narration from Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculine Feminine. 15 Precise Facts (1966). It transports us into a hypothetic world of architectural discussion, which we have to imagine as an exchange of ideological statements between le Corbusier and Constant. A polarised encounter, where one feeds into the other. The master and the pupil. The purist and the humanist. Hard-core utopia and cutting-edge vision. Iconic beauty and the beauty of social intercourse. We are not, however, always able to discern the two personae and their arguments, since they are both voiced by the same male protagonist (played by Andrew Stanley). In the film, this tentative ‘human drama’ overlaps with drawings, some of which are by Le Corbusier and Constant, or with still photographs and drawn captions. These reappear in the posters together with fragments of the scripted dialogue/monologue. The urban fiction of the title becomes both subject-matter, setting, style of narration and mode of presentation.

Andreas Kreuger

Pia Rönicke, Urban Fiction, 2003

Video
Sound, color
Duration: 16 min 40 sec
Edition of 5 (+ 1 A.P.)

Urban Fiction is shaped as a meshwork of allusions and references. The film borrows its style of narration from Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculine Feminine. 15 Precise Facts (1966). It transports us into a hypothetic world of architectural discussion, which we have to imagine as an exchange of ideological statements between le Corbusier and Constant. A polarised encounter, where one feeds into the other. The master and the pupil. The purist and the humanist. Hard-core utopia and cutting-edge vision. Iconic beauty and the beauty of social intercourse. We are not, however, always able to discern the two personae and their arguments, since they are both voiced by the same male protagonist (played by Andrew Stanley). In the film, this tentative ‘human drama’ overlaps with drawings, some of which are by Le Corbusier and Constant, or with still photographs and drawn captions. These reappear in the posters together with fragments of the scripted dialogue/monologue. The urban fiction of the title becomes both subject-matter, setting, style of narration and mode of presentation.

Andreas Kreuger

Pia Rönicke, Urban Fiction, 2003

Video
Sound, color
Duration: 16 min 40 sec
Edition of 5 (+ 1 A.P.)

Urban Fiction is shaped as a meshwork of allusions and references. The film borrows its style of narration from Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculine Feminine. 15 Precise Facts (1966). It transports us into a hypothetic world of architectural discussion, which we have to imagine as an exchange of ideological statements between le Corbusier and Constant. A polarised encounter, where one feeds into the other. The master and the pupil. The purist and the humanist. Hard-core utopia and cutting-edge vision. Iconic beauty and the beauty of social intercourse. We are not, however, always able to discern the two personae and their arguments, since they are both voiced by the same male protagonist (played by Andrew Stanley). In the film, this tentative ‘human drama’ overlaps with drawings, some of which are by Le Corbusier and Constant, or with still photographs and drawn captions. These reappear in the posters together with fragments of the scripted dialogue/monologue. The urban fiction of the title becomes both subject-matter, setting, style of narration and mode of presentation.

Andreas Kreuger