{"id":5499,"date":"2014-04-11T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T05:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:57:30","slug":"april-17-thom-andersen-reconversao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/04\/11\/april-17-thom-andersen-reconversao\/","title":{"rendered":"April 17 &#8211; Thom Andersen: Reconvers\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, April 17<\/strong>\u00a0| <em>Tom Andersen\u00a0in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5398\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/TAndersen_Reconversao2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5398\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2014\/01\/TAndersen_Reconversao2.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Reconvers\u00e3o (Thom Andersen, 2012). Courtesy of the artist. \" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Reconvers\u00e3o (Thom Andersen, 2012). Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A master of the essay film,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/directory.calarts.edu\/node\/941\">Thom Andersen<\/a>\u00a0turns his attention to the work of the Pritzker Prize\u2013winning Portuguese architect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pritzkerprize.com\/2011\/biography\">Eduardo Souto de Moura<\/a>. Considering built, unrealized, and abandoned projects and using a stop-motion technique that emphasizes the temporal dimension of architecture,\u00a0<em>Reconvers\u00e3o<\/em>\u00a0(2012) regards buildings not as static objects but living things, subject to decay, death, and even rebirth. (Museum of the Moving Image)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em>2012, Portugal\/USA, Digital Video, 65 minutes + discussion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thom Andersen (b. 1943, Chicago) is a filmmaker, curator, and scholar based in Los Angeles where he currently teaches film composition at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmvideo.calarts.edu\/\">California Institute of the Arts<\/a>. \u00a0Anderson has made numerous short films including\u00a0<em>Melting<\/em>\u00a0(1965),\u00a0<em>Olivia\u2019s Place<\/em>\u00a0(1966) and \u2014 \u2014\u2014- (1967, in collaboration with Malcolm Brodwick). \u00a0In 2003 he completed\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Plays Itself<\/em>, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 17\u00a0| Tom Andersen\u00a0in person! A master of the essay film,\u00a0Thom Andersen\u00a0turns his attention to the work of the Pritzker Prize\u2013winning Portuguese architect\u00a0Eduardo Souto de Moura. Considering built, unrealized, and abandoned projects and using a stop-motion technique that emphasizes the temporal dimension of architecture,\u00a0Reconvers\u00e3o\u00a0(2012) regards buildings not as static objects but living things, subject [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2014\/04\/11\/april-17-thom-andersen-reconversao\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from April 17 &#8211; Thom Andersen: Reconvers\u00e3o<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":5398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[74,186,203,379,423,595,615],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19","tag-architecture","tag-eduardo-souto-de-moura","tag-essay-film","tag-los-angeles","tag-monographic-shows","tag-thom-andersen","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}