10.22024/UNIKENT/01.01.84
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Connolly, Stephen
Stephen
Connolly
Machine Space: videos to accompany the thesis 'The spatial cinema: an encounter between Lefebvre and the moving image'
Film, cinema, space, landscape, artists film, essay film, Lefebvre, Urban Studies, Detroit, Michigan, materialism, cartography, maps, aerial photography, redlining, people mover, Stephen Connolly, Marsha Music, Julia Yezbick
Machine Space is an essay film that explores the city of Detroit as a space of movement and circulation. This city is negotiated in the moving image as a palimpsest of maps, spatial metrics and automotive infrastructure; illustrating the material and discursive layers that have constructed this now post-industrial metropolis. This is a city where, in the words of the urban thinker Henri Lefebvre,
'the production of space itself replaces - or, rather, is superimposed upon - the production of things in space.' (Lefebvre 1991, p.62)
This practice-as-research doctoral project explores an interface of Lefebvre's 'production of space' with the cinema; as visual artefact, a phenomenological document; and as media exhibited in a screening space. The result is a productive discourse of 'Spatial Cinema.'
2019
University of Kent
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