Ecce Mole

The latest entry in Heinz Emigholzs (Slaughterhouses of Modernity, NYFF60) incisive, decades-long inquiry into the cinematic representation of space contrasts two Turin landmarks designed by Italian neoclassical architect Alessandro Antonelli: the narrow Casa Scaccabarozzi and the towering Mole Antonelliana, now home to the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. With Emigholzs signature metrical cutting and oblique framings, Ecce Mole explores cinemas own spatial and symbolic dimensions through the buildings opposing scales and functionsinterior and exterior, domestic and civic, modest and monumental.