Many of experiments regarding the identities of space have been influenced by structuralist theories of film—readings which emphasise how film conveys meaning through the use of codes and conventions—as well as works of cinema responding to these ideas. In particular, the aforementioned works of James Benning (see 2-11) have been influential in my pursuit of… Continue reading 2-13: TOUR 14 X 15
Tag: Paris
2-12: PARIS SYNDROME
Consider the tourist destination, experienced, captured, remembered by millions every year; a space that exists as much in the form of a visually codified idea as in its physical reality. Hiroaki Ota, a Japanese psychiatrist working at a French hospital in the 1980s, coined the term ‘Paris syndrome’ to describe a condition he claimed to… Continue reading 2-12: PARIS SYNDROME