Hard spirits : architectural apparitions in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away

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Abstract

Film has a long history of spectral association, from the possibilities of projection, the dancing image that hangs in the air, to the translucence of the media itself. Taking inspiration from a Japanese animation, Michael Chapman, Professor and Chair of Architecture and Industrial Design at Western Sydney University, has created a series of works that seek to fill in the haunted blanks and uncanny parallaxes that exist between the space we view and perceive in the filmic sequence and an ‘objective’ reality of that architecture. He uses some of the compositional protocols of the traditional scroll and machinery to produce his proposal – a parallel world that haunts the absences and holes within the original.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)126-133
Number of pages8
JournalArchitectural Design
Volume94
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2024

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