Editor: Spacing is pleased to continue our partnership with the National Film Board of Canada to showcase films and interactive projects from their online screening room. Julie Matlin of the NFB will be occasionally posting films here on Spacing that explore public spaces, Canadian or international cities and anything urban. The NFB is one of Canada’s greatest resources. Click here to view their entire online collection.
Over the weekend, in conjunction with Le Devoir, we launched a new interactive site called Territories. The project is a visual essay that explores urban landscapes and records the passage of time and the encroachment of consumption on these spaces.
New urban landscapes are part of our lives – we travel through them on our way to work, we do our shopping in them, some of us even choose to live in them. For this project, photographer Tristan Fortin Le Breton went to the fringes of recent urban developments. He discovered that “poetry resonated in these spaces as they lay, lacking a clear purpose, awaiting imminent development.”
Check out the interactive project and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Absolutely loved this interactive project. The combination of eerie photographs and sounds captured the feeling of these spaces, and the quotes really hit the nail on the head to beautifully mark each section.
One comment I would have for improving the site is to potentially expand each section, so that when you click on the quote it will lead you to more information or to stories that exemplify the particular aspect of these spaces.
Very well done – I will share this with others.