sci fi movie corridors

[vj_jasper]

this article may or may not be of interest..

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/313130/in_praise_of_the_scifi_corridor.html

got me thinking about films, like.. 'hey what if a vj made a movie' ..
two very different crafts, vj and film-making - not necessarily related.

anyway .. the existential corridor article would be something to talk about when making a movie, i reckon..

"Repeat sections are what corridors are all about, and they're part of the iconography of pre-CGI sci-fi movie-making. For Alien, Roger Christian would have the production department mock up different sections of corridor for Ridley Scott's perusement, and whatever got the green light was fabricated multiple times to create the final corridor, often with the classic trick of placing an angled mirror at the end of the long set"

[cycloptic]

wow.
somedays i love the internet.

the sci-fi corridor is something i'd always known existed and in the back of my mind i knew it was a pervasive staple of the genre along with starfields and light-up control desks... but i never fully realised just HOW pervasive until now.

[Marina17]

interesting the development in video games... he just mentions it, but maybe it could be related with the symbolic meaning of corridors as representations of the 'paths' of the game, the fight etc.

[HausKino]

ace.

I always loved the way that Tarkovsky played with this kind of idea in Solaris, especially the sequence shot in the road tunnels in tokyo, where he's screwed around with it in the edit and flipped a lot of it to re-use it becaus they ran out of money for film stock.

So much older sci-fi, especially the european stuff was made with so little money, resources and support from film authorities that they had to come up with all sorts of tricks. It was so creative, even if it does date horribly, I think it still has a certain charm.

[vanakaru]

I was thinking about Tarkovski Solaris as well, but even more about Stalker. It is just the opposite - very low tech and pretty spooky.

[skulpture]

It's really geeky but I kinda love it! Not quite on the same theme but, I love all the HR Gieger stuff myself...

http://www.hrgiger.com/

How you can even think of some of his designs literally amazes me!

Example:

http://application.denofgeek.com/images/m/alien/space-jockey_in_cockpit_production_art.jpg

[HausKino]

I was thinking about Tarkovski Solaris as well, but even more about Stalker. It is just the opposite - very low tech and pretty spooky.

Stalker is my favourit movie of all time, I did my dissertation on Tarkovsky!

[vanakaru]

In case somebody has not seen it here is a one I was talking about.
YouTube- Stalker (tunnel scene)