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The Cine-Tourist
How To Map A Film


or: 


how to film a map 
how to read a film, as a map
how to read a film with a map (in your hand)
how to read a map in a film
how to read a map as a film


or: 


why map a film
why read a film as a map
why read a film with a map (in your hand)
why read a map in a film
why read a map as a film


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King Solomon's Mines (Compton Bennett + Andrew Marton 1950)
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Le Brasier ardent (Ivan Mozzhukhin 1923)
The 'How To Map A Film' project began by asking questions like these, with some initial answers given in an installation at the Cities Methodologies 2010 event, where I read three cities (Paris, London and Geneva) through three films (Last Tango in Paris, Blowup, Le Petit Soldat), maps in hand. 

This website is phase two of the project. 
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Robinson in Space (Patrick Keiller 1997)




























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