THE ROOM
Understanding the room only as a way to reflect or collect a wider world, the stage set of a cinema studio appears as a highly potential condense universe. By definition a stage set is a simulation of reality, a fake truth inhabited as if it was part of our world. But a zoom out from the scene being shot directly reveals an hyper controlled situation, where only what the lens sees is rendered, the rest is built in the audience's imagination. Very much in the same way the Barcelona Pavilion's rare photographs give us a fragmented History, the stage set creates a fake truth that will eventually be accepted by an audience.
Furthermore, the stage set is an architecturally constructed space which is made of both real and fake elements, the chair and the city have the same objective but are physically different. Therefore this ambiguous architectural plan is never experienced as a whole, it's only perceived through the lens of the camera and as a lived space, implying the possibility of a constant manipulation of the perceived world versus the actual space.
So, if the Barcelona pavilion is the room within the movie, it should never exist as a finished and total piece of architecture, the pavilion is only the collection of fragments which, because we all have it as a commonly accepted image in our mind, only has to create the idea of the pavilion, imagination will do the rest.
The stage set is therefore both the container of selected fragments of the pavilion, truthful architectural modules, and the process through which it's rendered in the movie: the director, actors, camera man, editor, writer, etc...
THE UNIVERSE Reality to Fiction: The past is a constant juxtaposition of events from which Historians's Subjectivity creates our perceived Objective History. The reality of human life and actions is rendered in a collection of fragments arranged in a certain way to create our past, the Editing of our ancestor's action defines our new past, real facts have become fictional truths. Fiction to Fiction: If the room is the stage set it's implied that the film maker is not shooting a movie of the entire History, he was selective in the framing of his story and movie. Therefore Historical facts were edited, implying that in the endless lava of information from the past only a serie of small fragments were collected and arranged in order to make the movie. Through this editing process the director is able to conduct a team of actors and technicians who will shoot a "new reality". This process has brought the fictional truths we live in into a constructed reality printed on a pellicule. Fiction to Reality: Very much in the same way the two first editing process have been selective the movie Editor will have to navigate, cut, paste and inverse all the scene shot by the director in order to create a coherent story that will be presented to a audience. Once again this editing process will defined a new story or History, a new commonly accepted History which brings back the fictional world into the real universe of the theatre and the city.
