Performative Autotopography as Creative Recording

Architectural Essay Films on the Imaginaries of the Uncanny Home

Abstract

This research discusses three subsequential architectural essay films within their context of making. These films are performative autotopographical practices that attempt rather uncanny narratives of the home through drawings, filming, and model-making both as collective and individual. We claim that the performative making of architecture essay films is liminal, as it interweaves multiple forms of recording and many states of subjective encounter to build a spatial narrative. And, the liminalities that we magnify trace the multitudes of creative and imaginative mistranslations of monologues, dialogues, and polylogues that shapeshift into architectures, blurring the definite and established threshold of the home.