Machine Space is a film exploring the citry of Detroit as a place in transition from the production of machines to the production of spaces. The city is constructed as a space through movement and circulation in moving image. The film is concerned with an apprehension of the world - the perceptive, cognitive and emotive response to our material surroundings.
These pages show the spatial-visual research informing both projects -
> #1.1 Machine Space is the surface area of a city devoted to vehicles. In the film, it's a metaphor for a cinematic investigation Detroit as a space of movement and circulation.
> #1.2 The traces of unequal access to work and finance distort the landscape of Detroit. The 1939 Residential Security Map can be projected onto the contemporary city, showing neighbourhoods refused finance.
> #1.3 A panorama of the downtown is visualised by camera/vehicle. A layered perspective of a space of finance and corporate power, the route traces the discriminatory mapping of the landscape.
> #1.4 Can an audience be addressed as complicit with the configuation of the urban landscape?