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'The Color Black' traces multiple pathways through art and architecture
Jan 15, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 15, 2025
The 2024 book presents essays by Mohsen Mostafavi and Max Raphael that explore the colour’s significance through the ages.
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ADFF:STIR Mumbai’s ~log(ue) to expand the scope of discourse via disparate mediums
Jan 07, 2025by Almas Sadique Jan 07, 2025
The South Asia debut of the Architecture & Design Film Festival breaks the traditional panel format with its dynamic ~log(ue) programme across architecture, design, cinema, culture & politics.
Richard Peduzzi's 'Perspective': A total work of art between design and theatre
Dec 02, 2024by Giulia Zappa Dec 02, 2024
At the Galerie des Gobelins in Paris, the manifesto exhibition on designer and scenographer Richard Peduzzi honours 50 years of his career marked by a holistic approach to decorative arts.
On colonial pasts and capitalist presents: Tuan Andrew Nguyen at Zeitz MOCAA
Oct 22, 2024by Niren Tolsi Oct 22, 2024
The Other Side of Now reckons with complex transcontinental colonial histories, acknowledging the intergenerational nature of violence.
Hansal Mehta on the importance of 'ordinary' spatiality in filmmaking
Aug 01, 2024by Bhawna Jaimini Aug 01, 2024
With impressive filmography spanning more than two decades, the Indian filmmaker opines on not having a singular visual aesthetic that holds his work together, a strength that shines through his stories.
Bombay Talkies to Bollywood: Josef Wirsching's photographic archive
Mar 11, 2024by Ekta Mohta Mar 11, 2024
Curators of A Cinematic Imagination speak to STIR about the exhibition showcasing the derring-do of the pioneers of Indian films with 135 photographs from the 1920s-1960s.
Alana Hunt excavates the slivers of colonisation and cultures to develop her art
Jan 28, 2024by Dilpreet Bhullar Jan 28, 2024
In an interview with STIR, Alana Hunt walks us through her interest in the present as a means to revisit difficult histories to reflect upon the making of daily lives.
'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and its many worlds with Jason Kisvarday
Mar 20, 2023by Anmol Ahuja Mar 20, 2023
Winner of the Best Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, EEAAO's production designer Jason Kisvarday speaks with STIR on the magic and mundanity of the film.
Dylan Cole and Ben Procter on designing the world of 'Avatar: The Way of Water'
Mar 13, 2023by Anmol Ahuja Mar 13, 2023
The Oscar-nominated production designers deliberate on exploring new Pandoran geographies, world building dynamics, and the titular way of water in 2022's biggest film.
Discussion, discourse, and creative insight through STIRring conversations in 2022
Dec 27, 2022by Jincy Iype Dec 27, 2022
Best of 2022: From Oscar-nominated production designers to trend forecasters, STIR recalls compelling conversations centred on the disciplines of architecture and design.
Get It Studio transfigures the nexus of the physical and digital world
Aug 02, 2022by Sunena V Maju Aug 02, 2022
In conversation with STIR, Switzerland-based Get It Studio delves into emotions, senses and storytelling in the digital realm and the exhibition Nakagin Capsule Memories in Tokyo.
Davide Rampello on the mystique, movies, and magic of 'La Scatola Magica'
Jun 08, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jun 08, 2022
An homage from Salone del Mobile to Milan, La Scatola Magica or The Magic Box stands as a camera obscura at Palazzo Reale, ensconcing a sensorial experience narrating the fair's manifesto.
Of tigers and wolves: two films tackling conservation from an ecofeminist lens
Apr 25, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 25, 2022
Indian scriptwriter Aastha Tiku’s film, Sherni, shares ideological resonances with a work-in-progress by a South Tyrolean museologist and researcher duo.
Tamara Deverell on her oblong distortion of spaces in ‘Nightmare Alley’
Apr 07, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Apr 07, 2022
True to the Guillermo del Toro signature, the Oscar-nominated production designer talks about converting surreal dreams to nightmares in the eponymous classic tale of desire.
Mise-en-scène with STIR: The best of film architecture at Oscars 2022
Mar 29, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Mar 29, 2022
From desert worlds to rustic barns to carnival funhouses and abstract edifices, STIR brings you enticing conversations with four of this year’s Oscar nominated production designers.
Stefan Dechant on transforming edifice into artifice in ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
Mar 26, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Mar 26, 2022
The Oscar nominated production designer walks STIR through the monochromatic, square framed no-place in Joel Coen’s adaptation of the profound Shakespearean tragedy.
Grant Major on designing the subverted traditional western in 'The Power of the Dog'
Mar 21, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Mar 21, 2022
In conversation with STIR, the Oscar nominated production designer delves into the Netflix film’s production design and recreating a 1925 Montana ranch in rural New Zealand.
Pan Nalin's 'Chhello Show': A tryst with the dwindling single screen cinema hall
Feb 23, 2022by Devanshi Shah Feb 23, 2022
In a conversation with director Pan Nalin and producer Dheer Momaya, STIR explores the story behind the making of Last Film Show.
'The Intersection' by Superflux solemnly reflects on global crises through technology
Feb 01, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Feb 01, 2022
In conversation with STIR, Superflux founders Anab Jain and Jon Ardern probe the role of ambient technology in imagining a cooperative future through their short film.
Venturing into Virgilio Villoresi’s gleefully surreal, miniature world
Jan 22, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jan 22, 2022
While the Italian artist-designer-filmmaker-animator barely begins to scratch the surface of his repertoire, Virgilio Villoresi coalesces his dreamy inspirations in a conversation with STIR.
STIR’reel’: A compendium of films from 2021 with exceptional architecture and design
Dec 29, 2021by Anmol Ahuja Dec 29, 2021
From period dramas to fantasies to sci-fi epics, STIR rounds up the best of architecture and design in this year’s mainstream cinema offerings.
'The Importance of Being an Architect', with Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel
Nov 12, 2021by Anmol Ahuja Nov 12, 2021
The Importance of Being an Architect at the Milan Design Film Festival investigates the responsibility of architects in building 'tomorrow' through ACPV’s dexterous body of work.
The world of ‘Squid Game’: an architecture of oppression, excess, desire, and savagery
Oct 29, 2021by Jerry Elengical, Anmol Ahuja Oct 29, 2021
Studying the varying inspirations behind the spaces of the hit Netflix series, STIR delves into the evocative architectural aspects of what makes Squid Game immensely bingeable.
Entering the vibrant, idiosyncratic world of Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’
Oct 27, 2021by Anmol Ahuja Oct 27, 2021
Designed as a “love letter to journalism”, the world of Wes Anderson’s latest film is an enunciation of the director’s penchant for all things symmetric, pastel, and picture-perfect.
Michal Sobocinski speaks about his role as the cinematographer of 'The Disciple'
Oct 18, 2021by Devanshi Shah Oct 18, 2021
In an interiew with STIR, the Polish cinematographer expresses his inspiration and experience on the sets of the multi-award-winning screenplay of the Indian Marathi-language drama film.
Behind-the-scenes of the architectural spaces of sci-fi web series ‘OK Computer’
Oct 15, 2021by Devanshi Shah Oct 15, 2021
In an interview with Ok Computer directors Pooja Shetty and Neil Pagedar, STIR unravels the use of modern Indian architecture in the web series currently streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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