We brought to architecture what Bertolucci, who in the wake of Antonioni or Resnais conceived of as "The Spider's Stratagem," a film based on a story by Jorge Luis Borges, where if you change the figure of the spectator for the architect, the description is the same: the architect, faced with this new "movie", continually questions the data that in any other tape would be reliable: timeline, plot, beginning and end, space, order of the action; that is, the opposite of the conventional embodiment of the stories in traditional architecture, resulting in enormous confusion for the architect, even though at the end of the film the confusion becomes deep satisfaction when he puts the pieces together and makes sense of the story, that of the spider web.
It's been some time since the vast majority of architecture has been made to blush. Will we be able to create a new assembly, and innovative structures, using intelligence, one step ahead of what is conventionally expected of us? Will we be able to generate a "new realism", revise our ways of living, look at the past, relate to our surroundings, to look ahead?
This film, the one about architecture is only suitable for active spectators who interact with the "dilemmas" and "wilful forgetfulness" created by the current state of architecture, a challenge with an art form and absolutely captivating aesthetic, but also and fundamentally focused on the individuals who use it, who pass through it, or who surround it, and, therefore requires an effort on viewing. There are viewers eager to see this film. Are there actors for the filming? I'm sure there are, many. Action! Take one...
METALOCUS 026. Fall/winter/2009. José Juan Barba
