Dr John David Rhodes features in a film commissioned by the National Gallery, giving a contemporary perspective on its exhibition ’Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting.
Sussex film historian features in National Gallery video. How do Italian Renaissance painters and Hollywood film directors use architecture to get us to 'enter the picture'' Taking Antonello da Messina's ' Saint Jerome in his Study ,' painted in about 1475, and the films of 1950s director Douglas Sirk as examples, University of Sussex film historian Dr John David Rhodes reveals in a short video for the National Gallery how both use the same devices to stage entrances, fracture time across space and make us long to enter the detailed worlds they create. Dr Rhodes, Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Sussex, features in one of five films commissioned by the National Gallery giving contemporary perspectives on its exhibition ' Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting , which runs until 21 September. Dr Rhodes is particularly interested in cinema's engagement with other aesthetic forms, including architecture, visual art and literature. He says: "When we go to the cinema, we leave one space behind and enter another space. "So cinema is forever staging that, often as concretely as we see Renaissance painting staging that. A film may emphasise an architectural structure or a surface or a threshold so as to stage our entry into the film.
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