Film/video artists construct reality and create subjectivity. Any edited piece of film/video has a point of view and is, therefore, subjective. Filmmakers have the capacity to tell a story from differing points of view, often changing subjectivity from character to character, or to the ‘ unseen ’ narrator that is the camera, all within the same story.

Edwin Panofsky, film theorist from 1930s, describes the process in part as follows: “ the movies have the power, entirely denied to the theater, to convey psychological experiences by directly projecting their content to the screen, substituting, as it were, the eye of the beholder for the consciousness of the character. ”

Panofsky goes on to say that attempts to convey such information through film dialogue alone cannot be successful. An accomplished filmmaker can incorporate the unique qualities of screen space and cinema time to create whichever point of view is necessary to tell the story.

Temporalization of Space How is cinematic space presented in time? How does time define cinematic space? Spatialization of Time How is cinematic time presented in terms of space? How does space define cinematic time?