What happens when the ‘irresistible force’ of filmmaker meets the often ‘immovable object’ of industrial architecture?
Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group will go out 'on location' to for a virtual exploration of how industrial architecture has adapted' some of cinema's most accomplished directors in order to create: utopias, dystopias, supernatural ‘zones’, camouflaged pasts and enigmatic futures, located in mountainscapes, waterscapes, cityscapes, factoryscapes and travelscapes.
Featuring exclusive:
* recollections contributed by film & television producer Gale Anne Hurd about the challenges of filming 'Aliens' (1986) in Acton Lane power station
* location photography and production documents reproduced courtesy of The Stanley Kubrick Archive, illustrating the afterlife of Beckton manufactured gasworks as it was 'resculpted' as film-set for 'Full Metal Jacket' (1987)
* screening of excerpts from Jean-Luc Godard's first film 'Operation Concrete' (1955) made when Godard was a construction worker at Grande Dixence dam.
Presented by Dr Gordon Davies, volunteer at Cambridge Museum of Technology as a ‘sequel’ to Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group’s March 2025 and April 2025 meetings about the industrial archaeology of film studios.
Hosted in the Pye Building (access via Museum upper gate on Cheddars Lane). More information & advance tickets (£5 adults | £3 concessions):
www.museumoftechnology.com/calendar/may2025/ciag
Tickets directly support the running of this independent museum.
Photo credit: Grande Dixence dam, Switzerland by Actua Films, commissioned by Gordon Davies
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