Mister x the archives12/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While I had lived in a big city for many years, most of it was at street level nightclubs, antiquarian bookstores, galleries and diners, etc. The notion of a retired human fly-turned-window washer came to me when I first moved to Manhattan. Where did Terminal City come from? You're fascinated by cities, but this was a very different kind of project from Mr X, and a very different kind of city. It wasn't a big leap to see the city as more than a storytelling setting. My epiphany had to do with how a city's anthropology and culture shaped its design, architecture and civil engineering. Not only was it a noir/science fiction/futuristic city, but it seemed to be populated by a citizenry which only that specific place could have produced. Theoretical Architecture and Film History. Coincidently it was screened in two different electives I was taking at the time. Dean Motter: I think this idea of a city as being more than simply a location, stage or residence for characters occurred to me when I first saw Fritz Lang's Metropolis in college.
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