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The Expanded Essay Film: The Researcher-Filmmaker as a Topographical Thinker

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Traversing the intersection of architecture and film, this essay explores the relational and internal workings of the filmmakerresearcher as a spatial thinker. Drawing on the making of the experimental short 3xShapes of Home (2020), as well as a multidisciplinary rage of thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Malpas, Michael Tawa, Laura Rascaroli and Caroline Levine, the text calls for more knowledge on the spatial and embodied thinking procedures of the filmmaker-researcher. In particular, it discusses the importance of the idea of “going before oneself,” for the thinker and maker of spatial forms.

Keywords: architecture ; artistic research ; film as configuration ; Form ; Jean-Luc Nancy ; Jeff Malpas ; knowledge ; moving image ; Pattern ; philosophy ; place ; research-based practice, practice-based research ; space ; Topography

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The Expanded Essay Film: The Researcher-Filmmaker as a Topographical Thinker
Intellect , 199 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387438_21
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