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This essay investigates the idea of the frame as a major theme of spatial composition in cinema and architecture. The setup of cinematic and tectonic geometries of space, the relative position and organisation of volumes, spaces, views, landscape, camera and actors to produce specific tensions, relationships and dynamics – all these point to the function of agency and affordance that the frame provides. The spaces of cinema and architecture are dynamic fields of potential forces and interactions, involving the mobilisation and manipulation of spatial frames, regimes and strategies to achieve compositional, semantic and narrative ends. Frames establish boundaries but they also promote and prompt encounters with the ambiguous undecidability, contestation and erasure of the limit, together with a potential to present aspects of the uncanny.
Author(s): Tawa M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Jianzhushi (The Architect)
Year: 2008
Volume: 136
Pages: 54-61
ISSN (print): 1001-6740
URL: http://www.abbs.com.cn/jzs
