Dear Ahmet:
I am sorry for responding so late. I know you were eager to hear some response from us. You did in fact hear my lengthy comments at the end of the previous week.
I have watched your film again and find it really rich and beautiful including the main word you chose.....
Abyss
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abyss may mean:
Sciences and philosophy
· Abyssal zone, the deepest extent of the sea.
· Abyssal plain, a flat area on the ocean floor.
· Abyss (religion), is a bottomless depth.
· Abyss (Thelema), a spiritual principle within the system of Thelema.
Literature
· The Abyss (novel), historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar,
alternatively know as Zeno of Bruges.
· The Abyss, horror novel (1989) by U.S. writer Steve Vance.
· The People of the Abyss by Jack London
· The Abyss, the deepest parts of the Timeless Halls in J. R. R. Tolkien's
legendarium
I wander why you feel the need to jump so far away from the topic of your film that of Abyss. From it you can choose to move to spiritual and religious issues as found in Wikipedia see the Abyss (religion), is a bottomless depth., Abyss (Thelema), a spiritual principle within the system of Thelema.,.
Although there are no hard rules in this game of metaphoric constructions, tighter connections are desired. ambiguity and complexity are part of it, but confusion and anything goes attitutde do not help.
I would not leave the forest if I where you. Going to Hollywood , is cool and funny,
and a stage set is siteless.....At least you are in Holly- woods…....a forest of of a kind…...the simulated happiness (holly or not) of gambling on the American dream..is that what you intended to say. I don’t quite get the connection to the Berlin wall and/or to you spiritual interest in Islam, which I admire, but by itself does not seem to me to be an architectural question for a degree project (as I said last week).
I hope this triggers a focused and productive discussion that would lead you, very soon, to a concrete program and site selection. All of this does not mean that you could not capture the spatial, visual, tactile, audio qualities of a mosque as you develop a program, but I did not see you yet, deal with those sensorial attributes as you think about your degree project. Politics and symbolism seemed to dominate your approach. Again, just to make sure that I am not missunderstood: I am not saying that those aspects of architecture are not important or real, but they are not the focus of our studio’s pedagogical startegy.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
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dan and marc, i posted the following explanation as a comment in a previous posting, here it is again incase you missed it in context.
ahmed said...
Deleuze talks about human, and non-human experssivity, and excitablitilty. which may be linked to Emile Durkheim's notion of the social current. the idea is everything in this world, organic or not, is governed by laws such as those of physics, electricity, and so on. humans are different in that they are also goverened by the unwritten laws of society (Durkheim's argument)
my proposal of a mosque set for a film will attempt to incorporate sensorial government, which is to say humans also are governed by 5 senses. 'real' society expects an individual to smell smells, hear sounds and so on. a fictitious screenplay (or an 'unreal' society ) may bend rules, and blur the boundaries of senses, and of culture for that matter.
2:39 PM, November 04, 2007
ahmed said...
here is a link to Durkheim's essay on "the social fact" for reference
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdurkheim1.htm
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