ABSTRACT
Lefebvre's writing on film is minimal but nevertheless encouraging, and the idea that cinema may get US closer to the 'lived' experience is helpful in this context. Cultural studies scholars of Lefebvre have further commented on film's validity as a tool in the study of everyday life. Architects don't invent anything, they transform reality. This process of transformation evoked by Mekas – and Siza – makes the issue of realism in film a complex subject, and although it is not central to my argument, it is useful here to air it in relation to everyday life – and how it connects to cinema. Klevan identifies the uneventful to be the main characteristic of the everyday, which is very close to the Perecquian project and to my own way of thinking. Historically, realism has been associated with the representation of scenes from everyday life, especially the life of the middle and lower classes.
