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¿Cómo afrontar hoy la historia del cine? Ésta es la pregunta a la que intenta responder el presente trabajo, nacido de la necesidad de contarla otra vez, así como de renovar los puntos de vista desde los que se cuenta. En lugar de "historia", se propone narrar un "relato", pues se trata de un texto urdido y contado por alguien, como siempre sucede. ¿Desde dónde narrar hoy ese relato del cine? Desde la indagación en los conceptos de "historia" y de "melancolía", que ayudarán a sentar las bases adecuadas para descubrir el funcionamiento de esa narración desde mediados de los años cincuenta, es decir, desde que un cierto cine -sobre todo el cine americano se hace conciencia en determinados ambientes -la cinefilia que nace en Francia en ese momento y empieza a contar por sí mismo. ¿Y cómo descubrir el modo operativo de ese relato? Rebuscando en las películas para encontrar los lazos que las unen, las tendencias que forman, las redes que construyen y que llegan hasta el presente, cuando parece haberse llegado a un punto límite. Proporcionar herramientas y ponerlas a trabajar, a modo de ejemplo para volver a pensar eso que llamamos "historia del cine". / How to made now film history? This is the question that this work want to answer, from the necessity of to explain again this history and its perspectives. Instead "history", we propose to make a "story", because all this it's about a text that somebody elaborates and explains, as always occurs. From where make today this "film story"? Of course, from the investigation on concepts of "history" and "melancholy", that fix the suitable base for the discovery of the operation modes of this story from mid-fifties of twenty century, when a certain cinema -american cinema, above all introduce its conscience in some environments -the french cinephilia of that moment, mainly and starts to tell things by himself. And in which way to find the modus operandi of this story? Searching in films and discovering the links that unites it, the trends that forms, the nets that builds and comes to the present, when it seems to exists a kind of limit. To give tools and to put it to work, like in a model, in order to re-think that what we call "film history".

In early 1505, at twenty-nine years of age, Michelangelo began work on a massive tomb for Pope Julius II. The formal, temporal, and constructional intertwinings of this project are plumbed to create the foundation of this text. Finding its only full manifestation in the narratives of Vasari and Condivi, this tomb was the site of Michelangelo's first engagement with the making of architecture. The execution of this project would go on to intermittently occupy nearly half of Michelangelo's lifetime, making it a pivotal and paradigmatic work in the understanding of his opera. Explored as an embodied architectural treatise, the tomb reveals Michelangelo's dynamic process of creative making. Problematic issues in the prevailing Twentieth Century analyses and reconstructions of the tomb are called into question and alternative approaches to establish a deeper understanding of the project are proposed. Conjectures on the relevance of history, the hegemony and limits of analysis, the physical manifestation of ideas, what it means to "finish" a project, and what constitutes a "work," are projected from the foundations of the tomb onto the making of architecture today.