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Abstract

Lingering space appears incompatible with the cinematic. It neither advances nor transforms, resisting narrative progression and formal resolution. This paper, however, argues that the space that lingers constitutes a distinct cinematic condition within architecture. Challenging the assumption that animation depends on movement, the study examines how suspended, non-assembled spatial configurations sustain structural adjacency without consolidating into enclosure. The analysis is based on a practice-led photographic study of a furniture workshop, where wooden components, unfinished frames, tools, and material residues remain in partial states of assembly. Through a series of still images organised as analytical grids, the paper examines how repetition, obstruction, shadow, dust, and accumulation produce a condition of delayed movement, in which space holds itself in temporal persistence rather than progression. The still image does not generate animation through motion; instead, it intensifies the lingering already embedded within the spatial arrangement, operating as a photographic trace rather than a narrative sequence. In the absence of movement and transformation, animation emerges through the accumulation of matter and deferred spatial process. By reframing stillness as animation, the paper proposes lingering space as a mode of cinematic architecture in which movement is not enacted but held in delay.

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Author Biography

Caecilia Srikanti Wijayaputri
Caecilia Srikanti Wijayaputri has been a lecturer of architecture at Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, since 2009. She is currently studying in the Doctoral Programme of Architecture at Universitas Indonesia. Her research interests are related to architectural design methods and representation, in particular, a cinematic approach to dynamic representation.

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