(falling into) the space between the screen and the audience

The following is from a presentation at the Double Dialogues Conference, On Space, at The University of Otago, Dunedin, June 3, 2006.There is a space between things, and between things there is a space – a gap. This presentation considers the gap – that space in the cinema – between the audience and the screen. I am referring to the Cinema as an institution, and the cinema as a location. It is a space where films are screened: (often) with a screen, a projector facing the screen and an audience hovering between.