/night-time-design/ en /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/dans-la-rue%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Organization Dans la Rue Location Mobile unit with 4 stops Extant Yes Who is it designed for? Dans La Rue is a charitable organization that takes a multifaceted approach to providing support to young people who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness. Made up of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals and volunteers, Dans la Rue provides a number of services which includes mobile outreach, overnight emergency shelter, a day center, family services, workshops, and even permanent supportive housing for 15 young people and two families. The organization’s mobile support service, also known Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:05:54 -0400 Cara Chellew & Alexandre Néron 628 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/getting-out-getting-lost-formal-analysis-lost-translation-2003%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Introduction The notion of ‘getting lost’ is the occurrence of an individual losing their spatial reference, which consists of two elements: the feeling of disorientation and a spatial environment. The feeling of getting lost constitutes part of the human experience of day-to-day life. In A Field Guide of Getting Lost, Solnit thinks the meaning of getting lost extends into the realm of emotions, identity, and existential discovery. [1] This sudden sense of uncertainty, disconnection, and alienation shapes our individual consciousness and perception of the physical environment and mental state Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:00:54 -0400 Yiran Ma 636 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/cityscape-trash-nocturnal-tokyo-tokyo-godfathers-2003-satoshi-kon%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Introduction Tokyo Godfathers is a film about waste, human resolution, and the night. Directed by Satoshi Kon and released in 2004, it is a Christmas film and Kon's least-known work, sitting behind the more widespread influences of Perfect Blue (1997) , Millenium Actress (2001) , and Paprika (2006). As an illustrator and filmmaker, Kon sits within a lexicon of artists who have historically straddled both roles in the Japanese animation industry, where animated works are often adaptations of graphic novels. The industry experienced a boom in the post-war period when successful adaptations of Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:07:42 -0400 Mary Ma 632 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/staging-utopia-queer-performance-tangerine%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Toyland, toyland / Little girl and boy land While you dwell within it / You are ever happy there Childhood's joy land / Mystic merry toyland Once you pass its borders / You can ne'er return again - Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, Toyland, (Chicago : M. Witmark and Sons, 1903), 3. Introduction Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) set in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, is a film about thresholds. The narrative, which follows a day– and night–in the life of two black transgender sex workers named Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), ushers the viewer along the wide Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:07:03 -0400 John Vaccaro 630 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/beauty-and-terror-cidade-de-deus%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Ajwad Kabir 642 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/hong-kong-through-lens-chungking-express%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Claudia Ng 641 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/banlieue-screen-impact-urban-design-la-haine%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Marie-Ève Tourigny 639 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/la-haine-your-right-our-city%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Within a twenty-hour period, the characters of La Haine battle a private and a collective disruption. As day becomes night, three men’s desire to resist police control is crushed. An important aspect of this descent is the use of time, as characters Vinz, Hubert, and Said journey from a Parisien banlieue to Paris. Director Mathieu Kassovitz employs strategic mise en scène to delineate between these realms. The city, according to urban sociologist Robert Park is, “man’s most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart’s desire. But, if the city is the world which man Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Hannah Thiessen 638 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/urban-alienation-and-night-crash-1996%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Introduction David Cronenberg’s 1996 film Crash follows a cast of characters who commune over their shared sexual fantasies surrounding car crashes. Based on J.G. Ballard’s 1973 novel of the same name, Crash is a notoriously explicit and visceral experience of cinema, described as a “forbiddingly frigid piece of esoteric erotica” by Variety’s Todd McCarthy. [1] In fact, the film received a one-time Special Jury Prize at Cannes “For Originality, For Daring, and For Audacity.” [2] The film (and novel) have been theorized through methods of psychoanalysis focusing on characters’ internal Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Emma Gibb 637 /night-time-design/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/night-time-design/article/arch-542/surviving-los-angeles-exercising-privacy%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E In queer film and television, the urban context often serves as a backdrop for portraying LGBTQ+ culture. In Sean Baker’s 2015 film “Tangerine”, set in the unofficial red-light district of Los Angeles, the urban setting plays a crucial role in depicting marginalized queer communities. The film’s raw aesthetic lays bare LA’s hostile environment and shows the challenges of inhabiting a city that is actively rejecting its vulnerable populations. The film follows a day in the lives of Sin-Dee and Alexandra, two trans women of colour, as they traverse the streets of Los Angeles on Christmas Eve Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400 Alexandre Néron 627