Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
What if a library was to function like a novel or a film?
The Library is on Fire will occupy the New Soft Room at the Architectural Association over three days with a programme of texts, images and sounds: an experimental form of reading room.
Material from the collection will be available for reference during the course of the day.
Programmed by Charles Arsène-Henry & Shumon Basar
PART I: CREATURE
Thursday 3 May
12.00–6.00
Reading &Screening Room
6.00
Presentation by Charles Arsène-Henry
The fictional librarian will be introduced: a creature that searches inside books and film for the form of its intelligence.
Part II: VOLUME
Friday 4 May
12.00–6.00
Reading & Screening Room
6.00
Presentation by Shumon Basar
The Library’s ways of acquiring and organising its collection will be described, using institutional precedents that appear in films such as Toute la mémoire du monde and Wings of Desire, as well as other vessels of space/time volume.
PART III: TRACKING SHOT
Saturday 5 May
1.00
Seminar and screenings
by Michael Brooke
The film critic and theorist Michael Brooke will conduct a seminar on the language of the ‘tracking shot’ in the history of cinema, including Days of Being Wild, Week-end and The Night is Young.
For more information, please visit http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1867
*The Library is on Fire is the second hemisphere of the future LUMA Foundation library.