Site&Sound is an event series that explores the relationship between architecture and film. Each session will feature curated clips and short films around a chosen theme, inviting discussion around particular elements of representation and the different techniques employed by filmmakers. Themes will examine a multitude of perspectives on architecture, ranging from varying building types to their individual component parts and how these are interpreted by the viewer as they see the world through the lens of the built environment.
This edition turns to cinema’s unsettling relationship with the built form. From haunted corridors to endless suburban streets, film has long drawn on architecture to evoke what Freud described as the uncanny: the strange within the familiar, the familiar made strange. We will explore how directors use buildings, rooms and landscapes to frame psychological states - shaping dread and disorientation on screen. The Shining, for example, represents an impossible hotel, with interiors, expressionist shadows and eerily deserted spaces that are not just backdrops but active agents in disturbing our sense of what is normal and what is other-worldly.
How does cinema translate inner unease into spatial experience?
What happens when buildings disturb, entrap or destabilise their inhabitants?
And why do these uncanny spaces continue to fascinate us?
Speakers TBC
Site&Sound is very grateful for the graphic support from TM (TsevdosMcNeil) who have provided the branding and identity.
