Title & Author:

Misleading innocence [videorecording] : tracing what a bridge can do / a documentary film by Francesco Garutti ; directed by Shahab Mihandoust ; produced by Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Publication:

Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, c2014.

Description:

1 videodisc (49 min., 43 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in container 19 x 14 x 1 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Written by Francesco Garutti ; cinematography, Erin Weisgerber ; edited by Francesco Garutti, Shahab Mihandoust ; sound editing and mixing, Marguerite Luu ; production, Canadian Centre for Architecture ; curatorial direction, Giovanna Borasi ; camera, Mehrdad Azmin, Erin Weisgerber ; sound recording, Fatemeh Ahmadi.
Interviewees, Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Lee E. Koppelman, Langdon Winner, Bernward Joerges ; with the participation of Ron Kudla, Frank Bandiero.
DVD.

Summary:

"This film is part of a curatorial project carried out by Francesco Garutti while in residence as Emerging Curator 2013-2014 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The film explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses on Long Island, commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the influential American public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges had been designed expressly to prevent the passage of buses, thereby only allowing people who could afford to own a car to access Long Island's leisure spaces. The questions that the story raises are timlier now than ever before. They engage with issues of secrecy and control, the morals of power and the effects of technology: What is the relationship between politics and artefacts? How and to what degree can a project's intentions be deliberately concealed? What are the deviously designed effects and the unplanned political consequences of the agency of the artefacts that surround us? The film explores these questions through interviews with four scholars who in the 1980s and 1990s debated possible interpretations of the case. The film alludes rather than explains, interweaving reportage with the abstraction of theories. It mixes the deafening sound of automobiles with the singing of the birds that live along the parkways of Long Island, which are now almost one hundred years old."--Container.

Subject:

Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
Bridges Political aspects New York (State) Long Island.
Parkways New York (State) Long Island.
Highway planning New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.
Architecture Historiography.
Ponts Aspect politique New York (État) Long Island.
Routes touristiques New York (État) Long Island.
Routes Planification New York (État) Long Island Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Historiographie.
Bridges Political aspects
Highway planning
Parkways
New York (State) Long Island
Bridges (built works) United States New York (State) Long Island.
Parkways United States New York (State) Long Island.

Form/genre:

Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Documentaries (motion picture genre)
interviews.
optical disks.
DVDs.
History
Interviews.

Added entries:

Garutti, Francesco.
Mihandoust, Shahab.
Latour, Bruno.
Woolgar, Steve.
Winner, Langdon.
Koppelman, Lee.
Joerges, Bernward.
Kudla, Ron.
Bandiero, Frank.
Weisgerber, Erin.
Luu, Marguerite.
Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-
Azmin, Mehrdad.
Ahmadi, Fatemeh.
Centre canadien d'architecture.

Tracing what a bridge can do

Holdings:

Location: Library cage cca productions 290313
Call No.: HE376.L66 M5 2014
Status: Available