Keywords

• Intercepting the current debate dealing with the media specificity of cinema
• the essay sketches a research project aiming to test the possibility of funding Postcinema Studies. Assuming an experiential approach
• the exploration takes into account the newforms of filmic experience as cinema seemingly leaves its own precincts and finds newexpressing solutionswithin everyday encounters. Starting fromthe emergence of original imagepatterns in different contexts of daily life
• the observation focuses on the mechanisms which mould cinematic experience into particular configurations
• defined here as space-image. This category is analysed through the idea of design
• intended as a set of transformation options able to (re-)shape experientialmaterials. This allows it to reframe the presence ofmoving images in a perspective of organic integration and texture
• enabling on the one hand to identify the new places of cinema in our time
• and on the other to depict new research directions