We are interested in the political constructs and implications of urban sites and spaces in real and imagined contexts. We look to integrate form and film language and experimentation into narrative and conceptual themes: maps, deeds, plans and photographs become re-presentations of the ‘actual’ sites; film and camera techniques such as projections and stop-motion photo-collage re-construct the settings. In shifting and transposing the aesthetic, symbolic and referential to the ‘lived’ terrain, dialectical meaning is located and produced and the potential of film as map and film language as map-making is realized.

Geographical topography positioned as metaphor for political topography gives an opportunity for a macrocosm of abstract ideas about social hierarchies and power systems to be transferred to a referential, physical landscape microcosm.  It provides both a signified and allegorical multi-dimensional environment from which conceptual themes about bureaucracy and ownership can be organized: in under development, the ironic proximity between power and powerless is spatialized in a physical context. Such parallels simultaneously implicate the built environment as pre-ordered and governed by its political domain and create a direct path from which such constraints can be thwarted, albeit in a metaphorical milieu.