Rohmer Remixed

Abstract In his Passagenwerk, Walter Benjamin asks the following: “Could one not shoot a passionate film of the city plan of Paris? Of the development of its different forms in temporal succession? Of the condensation of a century-long movement of streets, boulevards, passages, squares, in the space of half an hour?” Unsurprisingly, Benjamin’s idea remains unrealised. Anthony Vidler (2002) suggests that it was actually never meant to be realised, comprising instead... Read More