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Film and booklet
The main way in which I explored Krems was through film. The exploration resulted in the short film “Painting a picture: on the fringe of world heritage”. The making of the film required a GIS-analysis, expert interviews, research into the history of the region and literature reviews. The research determined the shot selection, sequencing and narrative of the film.
During the making of the film numerous design proposals were developing in the back of my head. This booklet repurposes the research done for the film to make a case for some of these proposals, like the reintroduction of an alluvial forest in Krems-East. The booklet makes explicit the processes and spatial forms of the region, and as such it stimulates a discourse of planological and architectural development. Although film and booklet relate, the booklet should not be read as an explanation of the film. The short film “Painting a picture” stimulates a different discourse than the booklet. The film conveys my embodied experience of the atmospheres of Krems-East and explores how this experience is shaped (in part) by the relationship between Krems-East and the Wachau. The film may reveal different aesthetic experiences to different viewers. The richness of film as a notational tool contributes to a discourse of the atmospheric qualities of Krems-East. Making the ‘meaning’ of the film too explicit will take away from this discourse. The film and the booklet should therefore be viewed as two separate products deriving from the same body of research (see diagram below).
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