A glance behind the scenes of a film set: What are the techniques and means production designer use for creating places where film stories are told? Which material awakes which association? Cabinets made of material fragments and colour spaces show set models, sketch books, drafts and cut scenes in a comparative dialogue with process flow and complete films.
Filmic spaces are moving spaces. They set the framework for the movement of the actor, demarcating his radius of action. It is the movement of the camera – panning, zooming, and tracking shots – that reveals the dimensions of filmic space. (…) The screen develops a three-dimensional pull, drawing the audience right into the filmic space. The filmic space locates the story, visualises it, becomes its mirror image – the mirror image of an inner movement.
The exhibition examines the means by which the design of a film not only creates visual spaces but also helps generate the dramaturgy of a film. This is shown through five spatial constellations – spatial situations which fulfil a specific dramaturgical function and which show certain similarities or affinities across all variations and regardless of time and genre.