Introduction

This chapter introduces the book's object of study: the filmic screen as architectonic element. It explains the choice of Jacques Lacan being the theoretical foundation of the research and presents a series of hypotheses which relate to perspective projection being the screen's mode of appearance in space that in turn ground the expositions which appear in the following chapters. Finally, the introduction outlines the role of design experiments and physical model-making as investigative tools alongside the text's theoretical demonstrations.