View of Sighthill Cemetery

This view of the Sighthill cemetery in Glasgow was taken at the filming location of Pruit-Igoe Falls, a film directed by Cyprien Gaillard in 2009. The image plays on the contrast between a "British" cemetery, dating from the 19th century, and the block of flats built in the 1960s that serves as its backdrop. The photograph resembles a strange collage of two eras and two conceptions of the landscape, similar in this respect to the engravings of Belief of the Disbelief (2005) in which the artist inserts social housing into old Dutch engravings. Some time after the photograph, the building was destroyed, an episode that is at the heart of Pruit-Igoe Falls (2009). If the latter film was partly made on the Scottish site, its title refers to the destruction in 1972 of the large Pruit-Igoe building complex located in Saint-Louis (Missouri, USA). From this highly publicised event, the architecture critic Charles Jencks will make in 1977 the starting point of the post-modern era.