LIAM OXLADE by RMIT Architecture

Some More Puzzling Evidence

Liam

Oxlade

These are some things I watched this week while I was arranging the final iteration of this video.

Having spent much of the last 6 (8?) months watching a great many things on the internet. I figured it might be worthwhile to demonstrate how these things are - or could be present in the work.

Watched on Kanopy

Watched on Mubi

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

Patience: After Sebald Grant Gee_2012

Allan Miller_1985

Watched on This Light Google Drive

Watched via Torrent

Altered States

American Utopia

Ken Russell_1980

Spike Lee_2020

Watched Via Mubi

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Drift

Schizopolis Steven Soderbergh_1996

Helena Wittman_2017

Watched on This Light Google Drive

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Amadeus

1984

Milos Forman_1984

Michael Radford_1984

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Her Smell

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Alex Ross Perry_2018

Alex Talbot_2019

Watched via Youtube

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

Kiss Me Deadly Robert Aldrich_1955

Thom Andersen_2013

Watched via Youtube

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On The Rocks Sofia Coppola_2020

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Jason Woliner_2020

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I've tried here to locate something sampled or borrowed. To me something worthwhile.

These annotations are by no means exhaustive but hopefully it might go some way towards demonstrating how I come at these things. presentation video

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Me and You and Everyone We Know

True Stories

Miranda July_2005

David Byrne_1987

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Richard Linklater: On Cinema & Time

The Open City Richard Sennett_2017

Kogonada_2016

Watched on Youtube

Lecture

Creativity is the Enemy

Adam Caruso_2016

Tom Sachs, Richard Wentworth _1999

It was watching the Hudsucker Proxy that I was struck by the power of miniatures.

Watched on Youtube

Hudsocker Proxy - Miniature Effects

Our Happy Life: Architecture & Wellbeing in the Age of Emotional Capitalism

Piercefilm Productions_2018

Francesco Garutti, CCA_2019

This put me onto Ken Burns and all that can be achieved panning across an image with some cannonfire in the background. Watched on Mubi

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Dawson City: Frozen Time

What is Neorealism

Bill Morrison_2016

Kogonada_2013

This taught me how to video essay.

Watched on Youtube

F For Fake (1973) How to Structure a Film Essay

A tour of Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen

Every Frame a Painting_2015

CCA_2017

Watched via Stan

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Saboteur

Innocence of Memories

Alfred Htichcock_1942

Grant Gee_2015

Why should it matter if you are lying when you are Orsen Welles.

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One From the Heart

F for Fake

Francis Ford Coppola_1982

Orson Welles_1973

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San Soleil

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Chris Marker_1983

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Not sure if this helped or hindered, so many good excuses for less than lucid storytelling.

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Watched via Torrent

Adaptation

Mon Oncle

Spike Jonze_2002

Jacques Tati_1958

The ending of this figures prominently throughout the video.

Watched via Torrent

L'Eclisse Michelangelo Antonioni_1962

The Forbidden Room Guy Maddin_2015

WW Watched via Youtube

Watched via Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=5LhQpm4KdM0

Successive Architecture

Lecture

Preston Scott Cohen_2013

Roger Diener_2013

Took my skies from this and the Isle of Dogs.

Took my title cards from this and Drugstore Cowboys.

WW VG

Watched via Torrent

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Fantastic Mr Fox Wes Anderson_2010

My Own Private Idaho Gus Van Sant_1991

There is a moment in this when a small girl tells a story about her father being struck by lightning and catching fire and it is the only two seconds of animation in the whole film.

Watched via Torrent

The Piano

Puberty Blues

Jane Campion_1993

Bruce Beresford_1981

WW VG Watched via Torrent

Watched via Torrent

The Hudsucker Proxy

Thelma

Coen Brothers_1994

Joachim Trier_2017

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The Hudsucker Proxy

Maniac

Coen Brothers_1994

Cary Joji Fukunaga_2018

Watched via Torrent

Days of Heaven

Old Joy

Terrence Mallick_1978

Kelly Reichardt_2006

Watched via Torrent

Alvin Purple

Oscar & Lucinda

Tim Burstall_1973

Gillian Armstrong_1998

Watched via Torrent

Wuthering Heights

The Brothers Bloom

Andrea Arnold_2011

Rian Johnson_2008

Watched via Torrent

A Room with a View

American Honey

James Ivory_1985

Andrea Arnold_2016

Watched on Youtube

'Battle on the Ice' Alexandr Nevsky

Introducing the archive: Ă balos & Herreros selected by Kersten Geers and David Van Severen

Sergei Eisenstein_1938

CCA_2017

Soundtrack to my L'Eclisse moment.

Watched on Youtube

Tim, Do I Like That Dog

Microphones in 2020

Cate Le Bon, Tim Presley_2015

Phil Elverum_2020

Baltz on sequencing images

Watched on Youtube

Contacts: Lewis Baltz

Hypernormalisation

2002

Adam Curtis_2016

Screensaver on my laptop. Watched on This Light Google Drive

Watched via Torrent

A.K.

Crash

Chris Marker_1985

David Cronenberg_1996

Watched via Torrent

Wildlife

Shock Corridor

Paul Dano_2018

Samuel Fuller_1963

Watched via Torrent

Watched on This Light Google Drive

Phantom Thread

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

Paul Thomas Anderson_2017

Reyner Banham_1972

Watched via Torrent

The Good German

The Man Who Wasn't There

Steven Soderbergh_2006

Coen Brothers_2001

Watched on Youtube

Lecture

Noam Chomsky: Manafacturing Consent

Arno Brandlhuber_2018

Marck Achbar_1992

Watched via Torrent

High Life

The Lady Vanishes Alfred Hitchcock_1938

Claire Denis_2018

Soundtrack to my silent film sequence, Guy does it best.

Watched via Torrent

Sunset Boulevard

Heart of the World

Billy Wilder_1950

Guy Maddin_2000

Watched via Torrent

The House That Jack Built

The Double Life of Veronique Krzysztof KieĹ&#x203A;lowski_1981

Lars von Trier_2018

Watched via Torrent

Peace

Cold War

Katsuhiro Soda_2010

PaweĹ&#x201A; Pawlikowski_2018

A strange localist fever dream, so specific.

Watched via Torrent

So many lessons. Everyone should see this.

Anomalisa

My Winnipeg

Charlie Kaufman_2015

Guy Maddin_2007

https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=AjnpTWW g85wqY

Watched via Torrent

Tokyo-Ga

I Am Not Madame Bovary

Wim Wenders_1983

Feng Xiaogang_2016

Watched via Torrent

In No Great Hurry: 13 Life Lessons with Saul Leiter

William Eggleston in the Real World Michael Almereyda_2005

Thomas Leach_2014

Watched via Torrent

Manafactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Finding Vivian Meier John Maloof_2014

Jennefer Baichwal_2006

Watched via Torrent

A Zed & Two Noughts

Drowning by Numbers

Peter Greenaway_1985

John Maloof_1988

Chris figured out already. Watched via Torrent

Watched via Torrent

Mauvais Sang

Leos Carax_1986

La Jetee Chris Marker_1964

All of it.

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We consume most of our knowledge regarding foreign architectures second hand. Though on occasion we are lucky enough to visit those buildings we have seen (and worshipped) in images.

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There are no Jun Aoki lectures on the net that are in English. Though I did attend a lecture he gave at the Tokyo University of the Arts, for the commencment of his professorship. He presented in Japanese, but a friend translated for me. presentation video

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He spoke mostly about this Shinohara project that he had worked on, when a young grad. I got the chance to visit a few of his buildings, and I took some photos.

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Jun Aoki

Omiyamae Gymnasium

Suginami, Tokyo

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Omiyamae Gymnasium

Suginami, Tokyo

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Suginami, Tokyo

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Hiroshima

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Miyoshi Civic Hall

Hiroshima

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Aomori Museum of Art

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Aomori Museum of Art

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These are two more buildings that stuck with me.

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Tsukumoto Yoshiharu Lab

Yoshio Taniguchi

TIT EEI Building

Naka Incineration Plant

Ookayama, Tokyo

Hiroshima

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Now premiere pro dreams are more frequent than the ones I used to get endlessly panning around Rhino.

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It forced me to be less precious and more accountable in my drawings and modelling.

I tried to make videos every week from the beginning, to communicate and work through ideas. presentation video

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Something that I suspect (hope) carries through to the architecture.

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It was here that everything came together, where I could comprehend the entire thing as a coherent idea. Even when it was less than lucid. Parrallel to my efforts compiling these videos, there was a kind of script floating around in the background. presentation video

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'The revolution in our attitude of mind to the reorganisation of our world calls for a change in our media of expression'

[Silent Film Video 1:30]

- Hannes Meyer in 1926

In 1926 the possibility of explosive transformation in the aesthetic spectrum was born out of an optimism generated by radical change that had and was occurring within global social structure.

Using music from Heart of the World Guy Maddin, 2000

In 2020, this possibility shares optimism with hope for even a moderate shift toward a global society capable of recognising its diabolical relationship with the planet it exists on. An aesthetic regime we might look to as modern, or contemporary in this way, would be a sets of devices employed by the politico-media complex. This project is about locating an architecture - and devices for its production - that can participate confidently in this complex. And then how we might leverage this competency to pursue an outcome for the City of Greater Dandenong. If our present circumstance generates an unbalanced, top heavy social structure which displaces the undesirable byproducts of this minorities lifestyle. Then the place that these things are displaced to, are exactly where our efforts should be focused.

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Dandenong has been many things, and for much of its history it has been an adjunct. A town passed through or stopped in, when it existed apart from the sprawl. And then somewhere to work in or move away from once this sprawl caught up with it.

[BP Island Video 2:00]

The Mechanics Institute Hall, where we now stand - has been a kind of register for these fluctuations. As is most public space, it’s a place where we celebrate a collective interest in the present ideal - or at least a collective lack of will to change it.

(My dad tells me he was involved in the sale of a bit of land there) (When he worked for BP in the 1980s)

In finding a way to bridge this gap to the present, we can locate ourselves in stories or memories. If we lack these ourselves; we can find compelling evidence for our cause, and construct our own.

And I think my starting salary was 18,600 dollars and I thought - you beauty! … you beauty.

(This place is strange to me) (I have no memories of it) (I ask those around me if they do)

… I’d recently graduated, maybe 22… Yep…

The company was also undertaking a serious divestment strategy at the time, which is where BP Island in Dandenong first crossed my paths. And I can remember which had it valued at $800,000 which at the time was a very significant amount of money. And out the back of it was our training centre, and we would often be sent there to do whatever training was appropriate at that time. And it was pretty obvious that it was a mini BP house, and being a curious type - I made some inquiries and it turned out it had been constructed before BP House. Essentially so the powers that be could be really comfortable with what was going to be constructed in Albert Road.

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Even the external treatments - like BP House - I don’t know what you would call that big sweep around the front; is that convex or concave or whatever and it's got like these strips of concrete with a little decoration in them and that exactly what the little mini BP house had on it. Which sadly has only been demolished in the last few weeks. … yep… 217

This is one of many stories, and it points to an ideal that has carried to our present day - in the 1980s we worshipped cars and real estate. 40 years later we worship real estate and cars.

If we could uncouple this trend from global politics we might be able to direct its energies to something more local.

The manner in which we are sold these products has become a globalised industry, and suggestions of a counter-culture have simply been absorbed into its vocabulary.

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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at stake here is the monetisation of our happiness, which is bought and sold as though it were a tradable commodity. It has become hollow in meaning, and suspicious in suggestion. [Reinier De Graaf Bit 0:30] Architectureâ&#x20AC;Ś. Architecture is not meant to make people happy, Architecture is designed - like any artform - Architecture is designed to move people. And moving people is by definition antithetical to the stable mediocre state of happiness. When you move people there are ups and there are downs, there are rules and exceptions.

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In December 2019, the Morrison Government greenlit the construction of a new Gas Fired Power Station just 2.5km from the centre of Dandenong. This at a time of record breaking heatwave, and continent scale bushfire - the outcome of a climate crisis of which fossil fuels like Gas & Coal are directly responsible. The plant will generate a small number of jobs in the area, and much of the energy produced will be used to service the larger metropolitan region. As a known polluter, it will affect the quality of air in our city, and affect the quality of life of those people working nearby. Following our successful 2020 campaign for Local Government. We are calling on this city, two years later, for support in the Victorian State Election. Our City Party Representative will work together with City Council to deliver a future where our status as a Place in which people live precedes our status as service provider for somewhere other. We recognise that this city has its own centre and its own periphery. And that if we are to appropriately represent its 12 wards, we might go some way toward representing the virtues of the people who live in them. 219

We are interested in supporting market interest, not in the energy sector, but in emergent industries associated with online education, media production and the physical infrastructure that supports it. We recognise the importance of the agency of people, and are committed to investing in a means of supporting it. The successful implementation of the DBN, by City Council, will be sustained by the construction of a new publicly owned Data Centre, that will house a primary tenant in the City subsidised broadcaster - the DCB. This is a future that recognises the value of critical thinking, and providing individuals with a means of looking and discerning. It is capable of belonging to a larger whole without a desire to supervise it.

[Dandenong Company Broadcasting Sequence 3:00 - No Narration]

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The hope is that the success of this campaign will persuade other misrepresented cities to pursue similar independence, so that we might work together toward a future of community scale agency. City Party 2020, A Place for People to Live.

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This is an architecture that encourages a kind of puzzling. It encourages you to try and figure these things out. It is also a public architecture in this circumstance, where a service provider - and its associated industry - have been municipalised. This presents an opportunity for us to reconsider or reframe the industrial landscape, and this terrain vague that it exists within.

Film, and a type of architecture, allow us to recognise the world as constructed - they can do this in manner akin to the assembling of a stage set; where a finite world is determined and the audience, and actors, push out in search of its edges.

In projecting forwards, or imagining a future where these things are made possible - we can begin to conceive of a wholly new concept of publicness.

Once we have located these edges we feel assured in pursuing an understanding of its contents, and engaging in the play of its component parts.

One which values the inherent flux of those things that support our happy lives, and recognises the opportunity in addressing an object across time.

A type of architecture capable of achieving this would not necessarily need to invent a great deal but instead arrange known objects in a way that encourages the audience to consider them apart and together - to understand their autonomous qualities or capacities and encourage new modes of addressing them.

Even in the last few weeks necessity has dictated a reframing of previously undesirable space. When we pause to consider the myriad uses of otherwise banal devices we have the chance to delight in our own invention.

The delight of this meeting anew, or reframing of expectation, in this instance allows us to seek joy where it may have otherwise seen absence. And if we can seek joy in those things constructed for human betterment, we might be better placed to reduce our strain on those things that are seperate to it.

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