Abstract

This paper elucidates how film may offer itself as a tool for both the representation and conception of space that can strengthen an alternative, phenomenological and transcendental position in architecture. The paper underscores that the film camera can work as a kind of amplifier of how we, with our bodies, perceive space and project space. Through an analysis of two films, it points to the medium of film as both a tool and an environment, based on Gernot Böhme's ‘Raum leiblicher Anwesenheit (Böhme2006). These films illustrate how the film's picture frame becomes almost like a skin and through its surface and sound projects both a site and a near-sensual experience simultaneously. The medium of film as both tool and an environment thereby supports an extended sensory-intimate reflection on outer experiences and inner sensations that - in its audio-visual and time-space-based presentation - is close to a human experience. This transference and performance may lead to an extended awareness of touch, as the base for intensive projections of becoming and a new affective architecture.

Keywords

affective architecture, atmosphere, film, intimacy, environment, architectural design

Published in

Title: Ambiances, tomorrow. Proceedings of 3rd International Congress on Ambiances. Septembre 2016, Volos, Greece
ISBN: 978-2-9520948-6-3
Publisher: International Ambiances Network & University of Thessalie, Department of architecture,

Conference

Ambiances, demain | Ambiances, tomorrow | Ατμόσφαιρες, Αύριο

SLU Authors

• Farsö, Mads

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Studies on Film
Architecture
Visual Arts


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/80595