Ecce Mole

The latest entry in Heinz Emigholz's decades-long inquiry into cinematic space juxtaposes two Turin buildings by Italian neoclassical architect Alessandro Antonelli: the narrow Casa Scaccabarozzi and the towering Mole Antonelliana, which now houses the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. Emigholz's signature metrical cutting and oblique framings draw out the buildings' opposing scales and functions—interior and exterior, domestic and civic, modest and monumental—to probe cinema's own spatial and symbolic dimensions.