ABSTRACT
What is the impulse that compels us to sit in the third row in a movie theatre, pushing at the physical boundary between the body and the screen, between the material world and the immaterial world of representation? A close-up relationship to the screen fuses the presence and immediacy of theatre to the flickering light of cinema—we look for ways to ‘really be there’. The realm of responsive media has opened doors for me into the possibility of an immersive sensory experience that can transform narrative structure. As if the words ‘once upon a time’ could become a physical passageway into the world of story transformed into architecture.
