Braniff Airways: The supersonic future

"You don't have to carry a passport, because a friendly computer already knows more about you than you do..."

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972) from Repazzo on Vimeo.


This is a work of genius. 1970s pop modernism and intelligent urbanism. Reyner Banham on LA as the city of the future and how it's infected everyone's consciousness, direct from 1972. It might not stand up to ecological scrutiny, but it encapulates a certain techno-futurist optimism that predates the oil crisis. Fresh as anything.

THE 1970S

This is a homage to the power of memory; of recollection, the stories we tell ourselves, and it is simultaneously a research project about cultural artefacts and the hidden life of memory.

there currently seems to be a zeitgeist-ish moment in which the 70s are in the ascendant: whether this is because of resource crisis, a generation coming to power, or film, fashion and television, I don't know...

but in this new project we are going to conjure up some virtual worlds and some peculiar associations.