Architecture and urban spaces are central in the construction of the atmosphere, sense of time and the relation between subject, place and space in film and theater. Physical space, buildings, and cities, are experienced in these mediums through temporal aspects – screening time in film, and real time in theater.  Beyond the subjective mental experience, the city and architecture situate the art-work in a certain time and place, as described by Bakhtin in the 'chronotope', which in its literal sense, space–time, conveys the inseparability of the two elements in any work of art, thus loading it with historical, political and social meanings.

In the seminar we will examine urban and architectural spaces in film and in theater, among them prominent examples in the urban social and political history of the 20^th and early 21t century.