A number of cultural theorists and avant-garde artists have taken note of the homologous relationship between the cinema and the city. More contemporary figurations of this problematic assert that the city is not simply like a film but is a film in its heterogeneous visual and auditory refractions and surfaces (Anthony Vidler 2000). This course seeks to explore the dialectical relation between cinema and city in terms of analogy, mediation, experience and action to discern how particular occurrences of city space and temporality have been expressed across a variety of films and other media productions.