{"id":11585,"date":"2012-06-14T02:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T01:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2012-06-14T02:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T01:17:02","slug":"animating-piranesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/14\/animating-piranesi\/","title":{"rendered":"Animating Piranesi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36757486\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dupond.jpg\" alt=\"dupond.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Piranesi Carceri d&#8217;Invenzione (2010).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Peacay at BibliOdyssey linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36757486\" target=\"_blank\">this short film<\/a> by Gr\u00e9goire Dupond I thought it might be one I hadn&#8217;t seen before but it turns out I have, and I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/09\/carceri-thermae-and-candelabra\/\">the exhibition it was produced for<\/a> in 2010. No matter, it&#8217;s worth drawing attention to again since Monsieur Dupond makes an impressive job of sending a virtual camera through the vast spaces of Piranesi&#8217;s <em>Carceri d\u2019invenzione<\/em>, joining several of the etchings into a series of contiguous chambers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HXGLrZMrpuw\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/yoyoma.jpg\" alt=\"yoyoma.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Sound of the Carceri (1998).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dupond&#8217;s film uses Bach&#8217;s Cello Suite #2 as a musical accompaniment. As noted earlier that choice probably came from Yo-Yo Ma&#8217;s <em>Inspired by Bach<\/em> (1998) in which Bach&#8217;s six solo cello suites are performed in different settings. Suite #2 was\u00a0<em>The Sound of the Carceri<\/em> directed by Fran\u00e7ois Girard which places the cellist inside a CGI rending of one of Piranesi&#8217;s <em>Careri<\/em> etchings. YouTube has a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HXGLrZMrpuw\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/09\/carceri-thermae-and-candelabra\/\">Carceri, thermae and candelabra<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/09\/16\/la-tour-by-schuiten-peeters\/\">La Tour by Schuiten &amp; Peeters<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/25\/set-in-stone\/\">Set in Stone<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/29\/piranesi-as-designer\/\">Piranesi as designer<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/25\/vedute-di-roma\/\">Vedute di Roma<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/25\/aldous-huxley-on-piranesis-prisons\/\">Aldous Huxley on Piranesi\u2019s Prisons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piranesi Carceri d&#8217;Invenzione (2010). When Peacay at BibliOdyssey linked to this short film by Gr\u00e9goire Dupond I thought it might be one I hadn&#8217;t seen before but it turns out I have, and I mentioned the exhibition it was produced for in 2010. No matter, it&#8217;s worth drawing attention to again since Monsieur Dupond makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/06\/14\/animating-piranesi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Animating Piranesi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,8,7],"tags":[329,1042,3791,1832,139,1833],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-film","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-francois-girard","tag-gregoire-dupond","tag-piranesi","tag-yo-yo-ma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-30R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}