film and architecture section: Outland by Peter Hyams, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The waterloo University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)
film index: 41

film: Outland
director: Peter Hyams
writers: Peter Hyams
production: US Warner Bros.
release: May 22, 1981
playtime: 109 mins
visual: colour
Language: English
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Genre: sci fi, adventure
Cast: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, Kika Markham, Clarke Peters, Steven Berkoff
size: 734 mb

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Outland was the first motion picture to use IntroVision,[6] a variation on Front Projection that allows foreground, midground and background elements to be combined in-camera, as opposed to using optical processes such as bluescreen matting. This enabled characters to convincingly walk around miniature sets of the mining colony.

Io, Jupiter's innermost moon, hosts mining colony Con-Am 27, a high-tech hellhole. There Marshall O'Neil probes some mysterious deaths, among the miners. In pursuit of the truth, he is alone. In Outland, writer/director Peter Hyams depicts a chilling extension of today's corporation-driven world. Dehumanization is vividly evoked in the environments of production designer Phillip Harrison and special-effects wizard John Stears.

IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_%28film%29

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Outland by Peter Hyams, architecture and film appreciation

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