The Fenestral Essay Film

According to film scholar Laura Rascaroli, the essay film genre holds the potential to explore framing, mobility and self-reflection, offering new critical insights in a variety of fields (Rascaroli 2017). From the field of architecture, Penelope Haralambidou suggests that the architectural essay film, a subgenre of the essay film, is helpful to think about the historical and social aspects of architecture and spatial thinking (Haralambidou 2015). The Window and I (2015) is a filmic exploration of three sets of windows, an essayistic self-portrait that explores framing, mobility and self-reflection as a critical spatial practice, following the practice and work of architectural theorist Jane Rendell (2006), coining the term fenestral essay film.