We Love Movies
If Toronto loves movies, movies have not always loved Toronto. While Toronto has had a thriving film industry for several decades, the city has often costumed itself as somewhere else, while movies that featured Toronto as itself were rare for a long time. That has started to change in recent years with a few studio movies and a host of independent movies set proudly in the city.
Movies are significant – and an apt subject for Spacing – because they are one of the ways of mythologizing a city, of creating an image that both reinforces the feeling of identity of its residents and gives the city a presence in the wider imagination. And movies don’t just shape our imagination – they also shape our physical city through theatres, studios, and temporary location shoots.
In our front section, meanwhile, we unexpectedly created a mini sports feature, ranging from pick-up sports in parks, to a unique minor-league venue accessible to all fans, to major league teams that never were. Add to that reggae, city smells, a map of housing types, and more to create a wide-angle shot of our city.
