%0 Journal Article %T The Landmark on Film: Representations of Place and Identity %A Pei-Sze Chow %J Opticon1826 %D 2012 %I Ubiquity Press %R 10.5334/opt.ab %X This paper examines two documentary essays focusing on landmark architecture in the transnational resund region comprising Copenhagen and Malm . I argue that the motif of construction and deconstruction is congruous to our understanding of the ways identities are negotiated vis-¨¤-vis spatial experience. In the films, the multiple trajectories of characters of diverse nationalities and cultures are woven into the (de)construction of the landmark structures, producing a visual space that interrogates what ¡®identity¡¯ means in an increasingly networked and global world. %K film %K architecture %K place identity %K constructions %K transnational %U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/207