Lauren Makielski is an intern for the Walker's Moving Image department. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2017 with a Bachelors of Design in Architecture and is interested in the intersection of film and the built environment.
Moviegoing and the Architecture of Cinemas in the Age of Virtual Reality
Spanning 80 years of moviegoing history, Paul Anton Smith’s Have You Seen My Movie? spotlights the audience and its ritualistic movement from the box office to the theater seat. Seeing how little the cinema itself has changed, Moving Image intern Lauren Makielski undertook a research project looking at the architecture of cinemas, the attempted disruption of the moviegoing experience, and the future of virtual reality.