IITheBarbican

Schemas and Sequences

Lara Rascoroli describes experiencing the Barbican in her essay ‘No | Home | Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-house’ as a space which is “almost like a town, and can even lend itself to becoming a metaphor of the world”. 25

Considering the Barbican as a metaphor of the world, particularly our world, is successful within Andor. As the Barbican was initially built for a larger middle-class setting within a financial district, it is evident the parallels are shown within Andor as the characters discuss money. Similar contexts were heard when I visited the Barbican Whilst setting up the frame (Still 4) by the sculpture park, a few people have walked past, some lingering in conversation about their work. This can be seen as a social context of how the space is used as a schema of an image beyond its frame, where one can easily read the rest of the social context of the scene in Andor through recalling experiences within a middle-class social space. 26

25 Laura Rascaroli, “Film and Domestic Space. Architectures, Representations, Dispositif. Ch.9 No| Home| Movie: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing and the Non-house” (Edinburgh University Press. 2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv136c512.15 pp. 157

(Published by London: BFI, 1997) pp.57-63