ABSTRACT
Jean-Luc Godard’s classic film Alphaville (1965), is the canonic portrayal of the dystopian state and its mechanistic city. Shot on location in Paris,1 Alphaville depicts a world of disembodied computerised voices, flashing signals, directive arrows, tall towers, dark streets and fluorescent interiors; as a sign announces, it is an urbanism of ‘silence, logic security, prudence’.
