Agricultural landscape between art and culture Screening of the film "Autumn Tale"
If the first meeting of the "Cinema and Landscape," the main theme of the relationship between man and plants, Tuesday, March 15, was the agricultural landscape the real star of the evening, considered in relation to art and culture .
With the way that distinguishes it, in a lucid, concise and engaging, Arch. Mario Allodi, as it has "launched" input on this issue. He spoke first of "agriculture as a work of art unaware" that drew that in his opinion, is the first map of the landscape, in the story of Cain and Abel, Cain, homo faber, is a farmer, while Abel is a soul sedentary, homo ludens, is a pastor, are nomads and have more time for speculation
intellectual. The speech then tacked on the Menhir, the first object that the man fits into the landscape, both geometrically and then build it to transform and to create the elements of orientation is, as a cultural reference to represent the deity. The architect has then connected the theme of the menhir to Kandinsky in his book "Point, line, surface": the menhir Recalls isolated point, the alignment of menhirs line, circle and menhirs in the area. Like the standing stones, even the farmer unwittingly change the landscape. And one of the main and perhaps the most obvious changes in the landscape is represented by the screws, the Architect concludes, rows that draw shapes, paths that color the landscape.
And the screws are the applicant's landscape element in the film "Autumn Tale " of
Eric Rohmer, the protagonist of the film is in fact a winemaker who, in a valley of the Rhone river, is at the center of a nice plot of two dear friends, who try in every way of finding a mate. All this takes place between rolling hills and landscapes traversed by screws that create unexpected geometry, whose appeal is "disturbed" However, the presence of bulky nuclear power plant. In this framework, "Eric Rohmer sets up the scenes," says the architect. Allodi and observes the behavior of the characters, just as if they were wired. "
