There is something fascinating and enigmatic about film projections and their apparatuses, as they captivate us and expand our perceptions of reality. The indescribable feelings they cause happen when we experience light reacting with the photochemical medium to produce a sort of “life” in the form of moving images. These ethereal images can expand our mental imagining into new worlds that look unreal but at the same time seem familiar. Not surprisingly, the same photochemical principles are used by scientists to decipher and reveal the complex paragons of matter in space and time.
Rosa Barba’s On the Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces is a book that combines intellectual insights that have evolved throughout her artistic explorations since the mid-1990s when she began her cinematic installation work. Partly based on her doctoral research at Lund University’s Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, On the Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces takes...