Colonnade

“Colonnade” is a visual essay on architecture and movement. Sparsely shot in black and white, the film seeks to capture both the perception of moving through space and feeling associated with space as the viewer is transported through a series of colonnades. The centrepiece of the film is the colonnade of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. This ramped colonnade, designed by Moshe Safdie and built in 1988, is an architectural splendour that leads the patron on a procession that is itself both ritual and ceremony, filled with exhilaration and anticipation. Available on VHS only.