Spatial Experience in Film
Film captures movement and change in time, and contrary to the other arts, it is able to project movement onto a two dimensional screen, collapsing the space and time inside a frame. This is different than photographs and drawings, which capture the architecture by freezing a moment in time. With a photograph one takes ample time to look at it and read the message within, while in film, images translate into a spatial experience through an interplay of camera movements, dollying, tracking, and zooming. At the same time, film is based on a plot, or story, which suggests a beginning (of a process) and an ending (a resolution). Contrary to common belief, this is not a linear process, because film can be disoriented with respect to time and space.