What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Bruno Dumont, B la Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Dani le Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub and Sharunas Bartas, chose not to focus solely the cinematic narration on the...