Research Catalogue

I found this work interesting. Methodologically, it combines the contemporary interest in mapping with a specific interest in film locations (and in the potentials for working with them made possible by digital media.) The manner in which the fading utopia of Expo comes to stand for a post-nuclear civilization is well-handled, and the joining of these themes to broader questions of North-ness is well-handled. The article moves nicely out of its key focus into discussion of the Bill Viola work then back to the Altman film. It is well-written and shows familiarity with the key areas of theoretical work on which it draws.

 

The exposition provides new knowledge, inviting us to see the site cartographically, as the space of diegesis of the Altman film, and as an existing remnant of Expo '67.   This is an interesting work, which allows us to see anew what, to thousands of people, is a familiar site. It recasts it interestingly in terms of a winter in which Expo '67 is never imagined as having existed. The minimal skeleton and openness of the work are among its key virtues.