Can architecture live in the passage of real time and memory? It has occured to me that movement must not be limited to action (horizontal and vertical.) For instance, the movement of people, light or objects are not the only consideration. In fact I have overlooked passive motion. Perhaps a design could link both passive and active motion as the design element. The independent African American Filmmaker creates a cinematic experience that lives in layers of time. In the end the film is sustained in the memory of the viewer. / Master of Architecture

Le più recenti riflessioni di Visual, Cultural e Media Studies mostrano come la società contemporanea si caratterizzi per una tendenza a costruire la propria conoscenza e la propria cultura sfruttando la crescente proliferazione di immagini, molte delle quali a base filmica. Intercettando il dibattito sul post-cinema, la ricerca prova a prendere atto di questa dinamica adottando un approccio di tipo esperienziale, indagando le forme che l’istanza cinematografica assume nel momento in cui, lasciati i suoi luoghi classici, si fa presente negli spazi di vita. Proprio questo sorgere, costituisce il punto di partenza per ripercorrere i meccanismi attraverso cui l’istanza filmica viene in contatto con gli elementi essenziali perché possa modellarsi come conformazione esperienziale. L’esito di questo processo conduce alla costituzione di una forma esperienziale particolare, definita spazio-immagine. Il concetto assunto come chiave di lettura di questa categoria e dei suoi processi strutturali (abitare, costruire, arredare) è quello di design, inteso come possibilità di trasformazione dei tratti che definiscono le forme esperienziali. Ragionare in termini di spazio-immagine significa allora inquadrare l’idea di esperienza filmica in uno schema di presenza ed emersione, secondo una prospettiva organica di integrazione e tessitura che conduce all’identificazione di quelli che sono i neoluoghi del filmico. / Recent acquisitions in Visual, Cultural, and Media Studies emphasize the trend to use the contemporary proliferating images – mainly screen-based – in order to build knowledge and culture. Intercepting the current debate dealing with the post-medial condition involving cinema, the research project aims to detect this process. While assuming an experiential approach, it attempts to explore the forms of cinematic experience as it leaves its own precincts and finds new expressing solutions within everyday encounters. Starting from the emergence of original image-patterns in different contexts and situations of daily life, the observation focusses on the mechanisms which lead to a modelling of filmic experience into particular shapes and configurations. The result of these operations represents what is to be called 'space-image'. The interpretation key-concept of this category and of its structural processes (dwelling, projecting, furnishing) is design: this is intended here as transfomation options able to inform and re-inform experiential materials. Setting the study of cinematic experience under the sign of space-image means thus to reframe the presence and rising of moving images in a perspective of organic integration and texture, which permits to identify the new places of cinema in our time.

Cette étude prend pour objet les salles de cinéma et la relation des spectateurs avec elles. Pour pouvoir embrasser toutes les facettes de la salle de cinéma à l’ère de la multiplication des écrans, le travail s’insère pleinement dans une perspective socio-économique qui articule méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives et s’organise en trois grandes parties. La première décrit les lignes générales de l’expérience cinématographique avec ses écrans et ses sites, la deuxième aborde directement le contexte du paysage cinématographique en Turquie, et la troisième partie s’attache à décrire la place des spectateurs dans ce contexte particulier. Il essaye de construire, à la manière d’un puzzle, le portrait du spectateur-type en Turquie, tout en espérant que ce portrait sera révélateur pour comprendre le spectateur actuel. Les observations par immersion faites dans le cadre de cette étude témoignent de l’existence d’une ligne commune qui traverse tous les types de salles, que ce soit des multiplexes, des salles de quartier ou des espaces de visionnement alternatifs, et de la continuation de l’expérience en salle à domicile. / The object of this research is the movie theaters and the relationship of the audience with them. To embrace all aspects of the movie theaters in the era of proliferation of screens, the study which follows up a socio-economic perspective articulating quantitative and qualitative methods is organized into three parts. The first part describes the general lines of the cinematic experience with its screens and sites, the second directly addresses the context of the film industry in Turkey, and the third sets out to analyze the place of the movie spectators in this particular context. It thus tries to build up like a jigsaw puzzle, a portrait of the typical spectator in Turkey, hoping that this portrait would be relevant to understand today’s audience. The field observations made within the framework of this study demonstrate the existence of a common line cutting across all types of movie theaters, whether it be multiplexes, neighborhood cinemas or alternative screening areas, and illustrate the continuation of the theater experience at home.

En el presente trabajo de investigación se busca describir la experiencia cinematográfica en las salas de cine de Miraflores y Cercado de Lima, y en los años 80, 2000 y 2019. Los cortes de tiempo y de espacio responden a una intención por explorar, generacionalmente, la forma en cómo los espectadores viven las dinámicas individuales y colectivas que surgen por el peculiar espacio de las salas de cine. Se busca llegar al objetivo, teniendo en cuenta la escasez de investigaciones al respecto, al delinear los conceptos de la experiencia cinematográfica y el consumo del arte, para luego interactuar con los mismos espectadores en el recojo de sus experiencias vividas. / This research work seeks to describe the cinematic experience in the cinemas of Miraflores and Cercado de Lima, and in the 80s, 2000s, and 2019. The time and space delimitations respond to an intention to explore, generationally, how viewers live the individual and collective dynamics that arise from the peculiar space of the movie theaters. It seeks to reach the objective, considering the lack of research in this regard, by delineating the concepts of the cinematic experience and the art consumption and then interacting with the same viewers in the collection of their lived experiences. / Trabajo de investigación

Nous exposons dans ce mémoire les principes qui fondent, au sein de la discipline des études cinématographiques, une conception théorique de la réception d’images animées reposant sur la modalité de consommation spécifique du cinéma en salle. Notre analyse d’un ensemble représentatif d’approches théoriques et historiographiques de l’expérience cinématographique permet de relever les principes qui orientent la conception de différentes formes de médialité conférées à l’expérience du cinéma en salle. Les théories du dispositif et du signifiant imaginaire de Jean-Louis Baudry et Christian Metz proposent une conception de l’expérience du cinéma en salle qui met l’accent sur les effets de transparence médiatique de certaines composantes des salles de cinéma sur les spectateurs ainsi que sur le caractère imaginaire, symbolique et institutionnel de ces médiations. La sémio-pragmatique de Roger Odin et l’approche historiographique de la New Cinema History telle que présentée par Robert C. Allen et Richard Maltby proposent une conception de l’opacité médiatique de l’ensemble complexe des effets de médiation sensorielle, relationnelle, sociale et économique de l’expérience du cinéma en salle et dont les spectateurs font l’épreuve sur toute l’étendue de ce type de site d’exploitation et sur toute la durée de son occupation spectatorielle. Au terme de notre analyse, les différents principes relevés permettent de formuler la notion d’expérience hétérotopique du cinéma pour désigner la conception de l’expérience du cinéma en salle qui caractérise la compréhension de la réception d’images animées dans le cadre des études cinématographiques. / This thesis explores how theories of moving image reception that have or have had a significant impact on the development of film studies as a discipline are centered around the movie theater and on “movie-going” practices. The analysis of a representative set of theoretical and historiographical approaches to the cinematic experience allows for the definition of key principles that unearth various forms of mediation at play in the movie-going experience. Jean-Louis Baudry’s “apparatus theory” and Christian Metz’s notion of the “imaginary signifier” both suggest a theory of movie-going experience stressing the transparency effects on spectators of the mediation of certain architectural and technological aspects of movie theaters and focusing on the symbolic and institutional nature of this form of mediation. In contrast, Roger Odin’s semio-pragmatic approach and New Cinema History’s critical historiography (as theorized by Robert C. Allen and Richard Maltby) conceptualize the opacity of a complex set of sensory, relational, social, and economic mediations occurring in movie theaters, which last during the entire experience of the audience in these exhibition sites. By unspooling the complexity of the theoretical stances above mentioned, this thesis moves towards the definition of a heterotopic cinema experience formulated from within the context of film studies.