Strangely Familiar Places in Movies Explained

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In this video essay we will be exploring and demistifying various types of strange, yet familiar looking places in movies and TV series. These 'unsetteling' places have gained a lot of popularity in recent years and became known as so called: "Liminal Spaces". People have been sharing and discussing pictures of empty shopping malls, playgrounds and hotels all over the internet, but what makes these places so special?
To try and find an answer to this question I decided to shine a new light on this subject by looking at it from the perspective of movies. I was suprised nobody had written about this or made a video on it already, so thats why I gathered a list of movies that feature various forms of liminality. I discovered that directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky and David Lynch had mastered the art of liminal spaces, long before it became a thing. So let me show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...
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Chapters:
0:00 An introduction to Liminal Spaces
3:04 Chapter 1: Physical Liminal Spaces (i.e. Discovering them)
4:51 ii. Exploring Liminal Spaces
7:24 iii. Escaping Liminal Spaces
8:59 Chapter 2: Emotional Liminal spaces
13:06 Chapter 3: Temporal Liminal spaces
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@DuCinema1 Год назад

You can now add this video to Letterboxd and check out all the movies mentioned! 😉: letterboxd.com/film/the-art-of-liminal-spaces/ The Truman Show Spongebob Being John Malkovich The Shining Twin Peaks The Matrix Vivarium Us Holy Motors Donnie Darko The Breakfast Club It Follows Squidgame The Lighthouse Parasite Stalker The Holy Mountain Blade Runner 2049 Interstellar 2001: A Space Oddysey

@OCSreal Год назад

@iz_was_here Год назад

Brilliant, thank you so much!

@michaelpierce6385 Год назад

Only complaint I have doesn't even apply since it's not the point of your video, but still...having vivarium and Donnie dark limed up with 2001 and holy motors feels wrong somehow. That sounds snobby,but they just don't hold up nearly as well as kubrick and carax

@michaelpierce6385 Год назад

SpongeBob gets a pass because it doesn't make claim to being film...for a cartoon on TV its great that it's interested in a little freakishness. Still it's no Ren and stimpy

@evaavril744 Год назад

Thank u

@grumpymunchkin2959 Год назад

I use to be a security guard in convention centre. At times there wouldn’t be any events going on and the massive halls, parking garages and meeting rooms would be empty. You’d wonder the whole building at night on patrol and never see or hear anyone. At times it was a very bizarre feeling.

@davidstepanczuk Год назад

I did the same, as a night guard t a basketball stadium, alone in he building. It was part of the job to go into the bowels of the building once a night-eerie, creepy.

@MTimWeaver Год назад

I used to be a security guard at a shopping mall and a 12 story hotel, usually working the overnight shift. Walking a mall at 3am, alone, while your partner is cruising the parking lot (also alone) is really eerie. I never knew which was more so...when some stores accidentally left their music playing or when the mall was completely silent. The hotel was similarly creepy. Me, a maintenance person, and 1 desk staff (2 on weekends). Walking the floors and the staircases, esp after the top floor restaurant closed, was creepy.

@chrissibersky4617 Год назад

I did too. I liked it.

@guerillagorilla4423 Год назад

That sounds terrifying

@r.davidsen Год назад

Might be a bizarre feeling, but it sounds like a great job. All alone, nobody to bother you and lots of time to keep yourself occuppied with your own thoughts.

@josepablo911 2 года назад

This is exactly why I love going to movie theaters late at night, alone. Having a huge screen and top notch audio in a large room all by yourself just feels incredible, and then at the end of the movie, walking all the way to a dark, empty parking lot feels surreal.

@ghoste_girll 2 года назад

Saame i love the feeling meanwhile it being unnerving at the same time

@mjmulenga3 2 года назад

I hope you live in a safe city, José Pablo. And I totally agree with you.

@KimberlyLetsGo Год назад

Very much David Lynch.

@kikib8434 Год назад

100% agree 😊🖤.

@benr3799 Год назад

I used to ride my bike out to the latest showings so I could ponder the depths of the movies on my ride back on a deserted road at 3am

@minengescho5772 Год назад

"But as humans we have the power to give meaning to emptiness" This ending quote gave me chills

@himeiharmonies Год назад

This video itself can be an example of a Liminal space. I like how this video felt like 40 minutes long even though it's only 16 min long. At the end of the video, It felt like I was trapped inside the video. Surely a very odd experience!!

@ahuman5868 Год назад

this was only 16 minutes? I didn't even notice, you're exactly right.. weird

@4J33.23 Год назад

I don't even have the words to explain

@diyachakraborty4742 Год назад

So true! The video is perhaps a liminal space between ignorance and knowledge.

@undercover_idiot Год назад

Right! I'm not sure if it's his speaking tone or the score he uses

@Kapionerr Год назад

@@undercover_idiot both match perfectly, i love it too

@rbisportscards3326 2 года назад

I never knew what this phenomena was. Growing up my mom and I would go on cruises and I would sneak out late at night and walk the long hallways and explore the ship when everyone was asleep, sometimes swimming alone in the indoor pools. The sensation of feeling a bustling place “at rest” was an unusual feeling, almost as if you can feel the vibes of the environment. I’m also an only child, I’m sure that helps overcome the loneliness feeling.

@tiltil9442 Год назад

Facilities made for many, inhabited by just one - like a conflict between singular and plural. You nicely put that into words which I normally would criticise: "this phenomena"

@redsol3629 Год назад

At rest is a good way of putting it. For me it's the freedom to be alone without all the static people give off.

@traxx75 Год назад

There might be a connection there. I'm also an only child, and I've always loved being alone in large quiet spaces. I lived far away from school, so sometimes I would arrive two hours before the start...then I would go exploring the empty school...exploring alone at night is also something I had done when I went on a trip with someone. I've never felt alone, on the contrary it was really fun and relaxing too. I'm also a fan of urbex...abandoned places just have this special charm to them. The larger and emptier the space is, the better it is.

@bibinharodrigues Год назад

i used to do the exact same thing on beach resorts during the summer holidays, i was so fascinated and never knew it had a name, i am also an only child

@LadyAstarionAncunin Год назад

As an introvert, I don’t get a sense of loneliness regarding liminal spaces. Instead, I feel relief, like how I did when I was a child and a bunch of kids were absent for some reason. If I know I can wander a place alone, unmolested, I get a sense of anticipation, peace, and relief.

@keymaster430 Год назад

Another one of the physical liminal spaces is a hospital late at night. This is probably one of the creepiest I've walked through.

@paulatreides0777 Год назад

Absolutely love them late at night.

@poppytielmann7611 Год назад

But I thought there are patients staying at the hospital at night 🙃

@mazombieme4045 Год назад

@@poppytielmann7611 Yeah, but they are sleeping in their rooms

@josefagomezschmeisser8356 Год назад

My sister in law worked cleaning a hospital in the night shift and empty hallways, out hospital is like 60-70’s archiquecture

@justarandomonlineperson8094 9 месяцев назад

absolutely agreed. i've worked as a barista in a coffee outlet in a hospital. it's more of a 'private' hospital so not much people would be seen at night. it was time for closing and it was a one-man shift. decided to 'explore' the hospital. it was.. quite unsettling yet so peaceful. especially at the staff lounge, where it'd usually fills with hospital staffs, nurses and docs. it felt.. empty, mesmerizing and.. idk, i lost word to describe. but it certainly was mixed with confusion. i actually was so indulged in it that almost 2 hours of walking felt like mere minutes. certainly wont forget that moment, especially it's something that i dont know if i could ever live to it again.

@p02studios Год назад

This video truly is a masterpiece. I'm addicted to liminal spaces, probably since I was a child and although the experience is usually unsettling and depressive, I just can't resist the temptation to seek them and dive into the eerie atmosphere they provide. Of course, I had to wait for some 18 years before RU-vid started suggesting me videos like yours. And the atmosphere you've created is just amazing - thank you!

@DuCinema1 Год назад

Big love, thanks a lot!!

@sk8shred Год назад

@@DuCinema1 You should do more of these cultural philosophical things! Are there more concepts like this that are interesting? Perhaps something like the things in The Weird and The Eerie by Mark Fisher? I absolutely adore these things and find them really interesting.

@sk8shred Год назад

@@nateman10 Awesome words man!

@eerice704 Год назад

Life-changing words.

@juniperstardust5549 6 месяцев назад

@@nateman10Wow

@lenningradgeneroso6066 Год назад

I felt this terribly for a whole week when I was moving out of my apartment. My roommate has recently just moved out and most of the things in the apartment were his… the emptiness of the place stuck with me til the very end. I felt nostalgic but also… off. I didn’t know if I wanted to be sad or not, but I just felt that. I guess that’s what this is.

@demisemedia Год назад

Thanks for sharing your story! When my gf, son and I moved into our apartment the empty space (before moving our stuff in) gave me a knot in my stomach. Like a nervous, excited, sad and confused feeling. Every time I think about moving or getting rid of our belongings and making the apartment a bit more empty I get those same emotions and feelings. Bizarre!

@Kyle_Bu 2 года назад

During the pandemic, I was working at my university and living on campus. My university has about 50,000 students so you can imagine how weird it was when I was, at the time, the only person in a very vast open area. I remember there being more animals roaming about especially in the winter here. It was a very unique experience and I took so many pictures. It was unique. The solitude as well as the cold winter air from the window that I kept ajar in my apartment. Everything was so quiet at that point that I could hear the snow crackling from the sun's rays. I went everywhere and walked everywhere at this big university of mine (6 campuses) Now that everyone is back I often reminisce about that solitude that I had while on campus last year.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Wow that feels like a movie script, phenomenal

@FLH3official 2 года назад

Ouch. Write more about that. Please. On my side I remember these 2 months when I was almost alone on the roads and in my little city. I have to say it was great. I loved that, sorry, but I'm not a "normal" human.

@Kyle_Bu 2 года назад

@@FLH3official the things we take for granted!

@JD-nt2sc 2 года назад

At the start of the pandemic I was driving through downtown Tokyo late on a Sunday night. I went past Shinjuku station, one of the world's busiest train stations. Almost no people, very few if any stores or doors open, the normally bright lights were dark. Went by other normally busy stations - also empty. Few cars on the road; I may have been the only car at some stoplights & could fly down the streets. It all felt a bit eerie.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

@@JD-nt2sc wow that is an insane experience

@lookaway1 2 года назад

This is a very impressive video! The editing and script are top notch. I used to live in Florida and visit Seaside (Where they shot The Truman Show) Even though it's obviously a very lively city, something always felt off when I would visit. As if it was from a life I once lived.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

wow thats insane! And thank you so man man 🙏🙌

@londonhansen8991 2 года назад

OMG, Yes!! I used to manage vacation homes in Seaside and when it was off season and I would be stuck inspecting one of the homes late into the afternoon, something just felt off. In a tiny town that’s usually bright and full of noise, it was dark and quiet and no one was around. It’s hard to explain the feeling but it definitely felt “off”. I managed homes in multiple communities in the 30A area but Seaside always had the strangest vibe.

@scratchgd5604 2 года назад

one reason i think it may be is because from watching the truman show youd probably be used to seeing it as it was in the film (there would probably only be very tiny differences) and therefore the few changes would make you subconsciously feel like something is off. idk for sure but thats my guess

@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744 2 года назад

Let’s see Paul Allen’s video.

@geslinam9703 2 года назад

@@londonhansen8991 I live in the northeast and spent a lot of time living in beach towns, mostly because of how much I loved the off season. I loved it when the summer people were gone and most of the houses were shut up, most of the stores closed, the beaches empty…it was so peaceful and quiet. Yes, there was a certain creepiness to it as well, but that may have been part of the attraction for me.

@Lost4life123 Год назад

10:41 I did not expect him to say "You finna die" LOL

@ArnoLouwagie Год назад

I can't express how grateful I am for this video. I'm a film student and I'm making a short film on liminal spaces (we both know that that means so much more than just ''empty spaces'') and the effect they have on people but I've been having problems expressing my ideas and my vision to my teachers. I feel like they just don't understand. This video makes me feel understood. You make me feel understood. You made an insanely great video on the subject and for that I want to thank you. Thank you and greetings from Belgium!

@DuCinema1 Год назад

Amazing comment, really cool to hear! België is epic ❤️🙏🙌

@jryde421 4 месяца назад

Where can I find your short film?

@called2voyage 2 года назад

Growing up my family traveled a lot and moved quite a bit, so we spent a lot of times in hotels. Hotels naturally being the state of transition were deeply meaningful liminal spaces for me as a child, to the point where I still have dreams to this day of being in an endless hotel filled with long corridors and stumbling upon people from various points of my life.

@called2voyage 2 года назад

Of course, airplanes have a similar feel, but they feel more like home to me. It's a funny feeling. Almost like a feeling of oneness with all humanity when I fly.

@lisa.66 3 месяца назад

I'm literally in a hotel right now...ive always gotten the same feeling, especially in the hallways, or the ice machine room with that constant buzz.

@pyrethorn 2 года назад

Maybe I'm the weird one here, but empty spaces like that are comforting to me. I've always loved being the last one in a building, like a library or mall. I enjoy having stairs, escalators and elevators to myself. Maybe it's because I have to take life one day at a time, due to chronic illness. Change doesn't bother me. I've had to accept that it's going to happen, so I can either be okay with it, or fight it and be miserable.

@aslongasitlasts 2 года назад

I contemplated leaving a similar comment here. I'm neurodivergent and seeing empty spaces and uncanny versions of cities in dreams comforts me. It's explained later when compared to people's reaction to the pandemic, it depends on how you experience a break from real life, no matter how much I try to eliminate stressful factors and have more privacy, I still get to a point where I need a break, emotionally.

@johndangerbenedictarnold7862 2 года назад

Yeah the cave is empty it’s safe again.

@Kikidy523 2 года назад

Same. I love post apocalyptic zombie movies for that reason. I think being one of only a few people left sounds amazing. Mostly in the universe of the movie Zombieland, but same principle.

@scoutlaceharding 2 года назад

I can't say that I find empty spaces comforting, but they have attracted and fascinated me since I was a child. In particular, I would frequently fantasize about being in a mall all alone, for some reason.

@sofiabravo1994 2 года назад

That’s how I feel about parks and grocery stores…less stress and more time to enjoy nature with my daughter or shopping taking my sweet time.

@linn_iker Год назад

There's another one: the Digital Liminal Spaces. People who used to play the old versions of Counter-Strike or chat inside Worlds, for example, can find servers completely empty these days, and many have described this same feeling on comment sessions or forums. They were spaces where we used to have fun with friends, create new friendships and explore scenarios, and today they are abandoned. But it doesn't stop at multiplayer games. Other games, like some from Valve itself, like Portal and Half-Life, are set in Liminal Spaces. Completely abandoned laboratories, buildings, parking lots and corridors, with few reminders of people who should be there, such as tables, chairs and computers. But you are alone, trying to get out of there. Trying to get back closer to the things you used to know. But your video is about Liminal Spaces in movies, so... ^^

@chrism3784 Год назад

if you went on myspace not to long ago before they deleted everyone photos and felt like big time digital liminal space, seeing peoples pages, and photos, but absolutely no one else was on.

@lakshita1408 Месяц назад

Wow

@Israel-ik8vf Год назад

A example of liminal spaces is Severance, the rooms in this series is incredibly beautiful and kinda terrifying

@gooblewoobles3686 Год назад

the entire show feels like a liminal space and i loved it

@puzzLEGO 2 года назад

I think you forgot one major factor: the architecture itself. You mentioned adolescence briefly, but what really adds to the uncanny feeling is that of a strong memory associated with that scene, especially memories made during childhood. It seems that parts of the scenery trigger some deep memories that we have only just held onto from childhood. It's not nostalgia when looking at the 90's or 2000's architecture, but just a memory, devoid of people.

@Dashingdiva73 2 года назад

Inglewood, CA had that feeling for me growing up. Some of the buildings had a 30'aspect but the city hall had a brutalist look coupled with the murals. When the stores were closing and people were leaving the city, it had a lonely abandoned feeling. The two styles made it very liminal. I still dream of market street being vacant, cold and imposing.

@ThePeter567 2 года назад

Looking at a different life you once lived

@sofiaross5358 2 года назад

This is a true masterpiece, impecable transitions, amazing analysis and overall incredible execution. I wish I could leave more than one like.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

❤️👑🙏 Thank you so much, really!!

@informer3000 Год назад

Invite your friends

@piecesofstarlight Год назад

So THAT is why interstellar's music is so beautiful, haunting, comforting, and eerie despite never seeing the movie. Han Zimmer managed I suspect to musically depict liminal space.

@QoraxAudio Год назад

This is exactly what draws me to urban exploring. Especially large abandoned factory halls are very impressive because of this. Knowing that there have been people working, having their day to day life, people that are long gone and forgotten already, swallowed by the anonymity of history. Most people rationally know their insignificance and impermanence, but to let it sink in and actually feel it... now that's a very humbling experience...

@Rotinaj37 2 года назад

Cool stuff. Minor nitpick, Truman is not taking an elevator up to his office, he ran into a random building because he was suspicious that something weird was going on.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

🙏🙏 Oooo hahah lol I watched it a long time ago

@shadowslayer0420 2 года назад

also the part where he says the overlook hotel was "abandoned for months" before jack and his family arrived

@pherdlmitph Год назад

Also the changes in progressed time in interstelar are not because of some magical wormhole, its just relativity caused by the gravitational effects on spacetime near extremly massive object, quite realistic depiction of space exploration

@therealCrazyJake Год назад

@@pherdlmitph yes, that would be time dilation.

@MichelleKhare 2 года назад

Absolutely fantastic video essay. Loved learning about the terminology to describe these unique spaces and feelings. Just subscribed!!

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Thank you soo muchh! And holy your channel is awesome!!!

@misty_gg 8 месяцев назад

Ain’t no way

@jakebrookesactor Год назад

Liminal space reminds me of being in my great great grandfather‘s farm house right before sunset. No furniture in the house, but kept immaculately, clean inside and outside. Unnerving and yet comfortable. Foreign yet familiar.

@OktoberJournal Год назад

I'm a cleaner at a hospital and every time I have to clean somewhere that's completely empty it always feels like a liminal space and I love it so much! Especally when it's at night time.

@aguy2162 2 года назад

About 15 mins ago I finished up doing some electrical work in a nearly abandoned mall that used to be quite popular when I was a kid, not even that long ago. Was really creepy. Interesting that I came across this video when I did

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Wow that is epic! What a coincidence

@LangstonDev 2 года назад

The algorithm knows all and sees all. Maybe the algorithm sent you to the mall just so you'd eventually end up here... 😂

@ysahehre4316 2 года назад

I've seen abandoned malls too. Places look less relevant without traffic sometimes. And then, I begin to suspect that time has stopped inside those confines. I feel like I'm stealing away. Those same places are exciting because they represent a clean slate. Anything can be potentially born of a void, an emptiness.

@stegosaurus0611 2 года назад

A topic I feel like you missed is liminal music. It’s quickly become one of my favorite genres. When done right, it can be super immersive and nostalgic.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

wow yea kinda. I touched upon it shortly in the end

@lissasdf6724 2 года назад

@@Syncopator Isn't it supposed to represent going through Alzheimer's?

@tristanabrams4556 2 года назад

Thanks for the nightmares! I looked up some liminal music and cant sleep anymore. :)

@stegosaurus0611 2 года назад

@@tristanabrams4556 you’re welcome!

@ekaterinabankevitch8513 2 года назад

Yes, right, especially the music in all David Lynch's movies - moves me deeply, even the James's song "Just you and I", the girl's song from "Eraserhead" - creepy and hypnotic. Similar effect from Cliff Martinez - very unsettling feeling, but can't get enough.

@michelleh.5225 Год назад

A film with a good example of liminal spaces is Spirited Away! The abandoned amusement park where the spirits appear is a prime liminal space. The train ride showing the expansive spirit world also has those vibes. They also show more views of the amusement park at the end of the film, which are perfect stills of liminal spaces.

@TaskForce_911 8 месяцев назад

Another fine example of Liminal Spaces is Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Perhaps we need an entire video on Kubrick and all of his movies

@Thebigskullman 2 года назад

So I was a Marine and served on a Navy ship for a little bit… the staircases on those ships, by yourself, are the creepiest things in the world. I never really knew why, but I feel like it’s the combination of what you explained about elevators and staircases being isolating transitional spaces you don’t usually spend a lot of time in, and the “run from imaginary monsters up the basement stairs” factor because not only are they eerie naturally but almost totally vertical, making you sprint up them (or jump down them) to be more efficient… or if you take your time, you end up climbing them way longer than is comfortable. Then every creak, every wave the ship rolls over, is just being shrouded in this dark place straight outta WW2, with the added creep factor of being lit by a red light (to save your night vision) at night.

@tescherman3048 2 года назад

Someone already mentioned it, but I strongly recommend the Apple TV show called "Severance" with Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken. The endless maze of liminal corridors of the office building are a disturbing metaphor for the whole idea of working for a corporation in which you have an inner "artificial" corporate life that is completely severed from your outer "real" life.

@fridaaa0 Год назад

I feel like all my aesthetic inspiration boils down to liminal spaces. I can't believe I just lately discovered the term for it. Liminal spaces have been so interesting to me my whole life. And now I've found a whole community behind it. The internet is a wonderful magical place

@theRPGmaster Год назад

Same here. I used to think I was weird, wanting to hang out in places like random hallways, or indoor pools, for seemingly no reason. I'm so glad to hear other people feel the same way. If I was rich I would build some liminal spaces, maybe a hotel or some kind of apartment complex.

@nyoshiako3368 Год назад

My mum was the head director from my school and I remember that feeling of seeing my school empty... You can almost see the people by watching these empty places, byvthey're empty. It made me feel melancholic as I could see how fast time passes

@user-tb6mx1qg9t 2 года назад

This video essay gave me chills and actually made me cry a little by the end... I feel like it touched the strings of my very soul. The liminal experience is such an important part of human existence, which is so difficult to explain but you did it perfectly. I'm writing an academic task on "Stalker" right now and you really made me understand it better, as well as all of the films mentioned. Thank you so much.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Amazing to hear!! Good luck on the academic task!

@rohithpadikkal7082 2 года назад

I wonder what architects/interior designers would have to say on liminal spaces, given it is their design that makes us feel whatever way we feel when we enter a place

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

That is a really interesting thought!

@AudreyMclachlan 2 года назад

We actually have to study about liminal spaces or 'non-places' during architecture school. Places like airports, shoppings malls and train stations are all designed to look similar so that no matter where you are in the world their is a sense of familiarity, whilst being eery and uncomfortable sometimes. The space between these locations is liminal space like train tracks etc. you'd never use these or be on train tracks unless travelling from one place to another

@KRAFTWERK2K6 2 года назад

What if architects don't create buildings but.... the ones who control this simulation (or the A.I.) constructs these places?

@artninja1819 7 месяцев назад

In the physical part of liminal spaces, the specific kind that stands out for me is dark school hallways. I used to have club meetings in middle school that got out after everything was shut down, and the dark, empty halls always scared me. That ending was... really impactful. The thought that without human intervention, spaces mean nothing is horrific and fascinating. Absolutely stunning video.

@insert-name101 7 месяцев назад

As an Indian med student, the biggest liminal spaces for me are hospitals at night. On day it’s extremely crowded. Staff members, doctors, nurses, patients, students, relatives. It’s all filled. Literally thousands of people, but at night it’s all totally empty, maybe a few security guards and one or two guys at the canteen. But inside it’s all empty, no one’s there. Very long hallways and passages, so many unused rooms, confusing massive infrastructure, simple and repetitive interiors, one floor in specific is where no patients are there. So it’s way too big and way too quiet.

@hectormejia7757 2 года назад

I had a friend that lived next to my school. When I visited him at night, we could see the empty school from his house, and it always felt quite scary, as if something unexpected could appear in the playground or the halls out of nowhere

@peatmarshnotfound 2 года назад

People rarely mention Jim Henson's earlier work "The Cube" a horrifying liminal concept in which a man must "find the exit to HIS cube" all the while watching others enter and exit freely. It gets overlooked due to it not containing any Muppets.

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers 2 года назад

Claustrophobic movie, with that gritty feeling that characterised films of the late 90s / early 00s.

@SamuelSmith-ol6jc 2 года назад

Well, I looked it up and now I' not sure what reality is but good suggestion. haha

@peatmarshnotfound 2 года назад

@@SamuelSmith-ol6jc Existential crisis at it's finest.

@truthiseverything9511 Год назад

Yes, glad someone mentioned this early masterpiece.

@truthiseverything9511 Год назад

Another that immediately came to mind is the 2007 movie "1408".

@irene8380 Год назад

The Umbrella Academy series also uses this element at the end of it. The last season goes by in a hotel where stairs, hallways, elevators and hotel rooms are key and fades and mark a limit between reality of the moment and a parallel world min the same exact moment. Glad I found this about liminal espaces, now it all makes a lot more sense to me! Thank you

@Later_Nerd Год назад

The Shining is the perfect example of this. Highly recommend checking out the subreddit for this if you're interested in this whole concept.

@CoasterTeaFox 2 года назад

Introverts strangely may not fell this way, it's hard to explain, but we may not get the same feeling of loneliness from empty places, but as a place of tranquility and peace.

@discipulaaeterna4389 Год назад

This is only your experience. I'm an introvert and these spaces are very scary for me because they provoke existensial questions in my head

@introvert9673 Год назад

As I sat down and enjoy my time alone, I suddenly think or look around the environment and remembers some memories of it or remind me of something I've experienced before and never again. I can't believe that dreaming of a liminal spaces would be very special to me because I get to explore them once and wakes up to reality.

@davidstepanczuk Год назад

Or both. It's not a binary.

@CoasterTeaFox Год назад

@@davidstepanczuk Yes

@MTimWeaver Год назад

@@davidstepanczuk I'd agree. I'm a poster child for introversion, and have worked graveyard shifts at a convenience store, and as security for both a large shopping mall and a 12-story hotel. Sometimes pretty creepy, other times peaceful.

@Aesthics 2 года назад

Great vid! Can't wait to see future content of yours!

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

🙏🙏🙏 Amazinggg! Many more to come!!

@rensgrijsbach Год назад

David Lynch's Eraserhead is also a good example of liminal spaces and the isolation it creates

@arthurbellon9446 Год назад

Idk how, but you connected in a single video stuff and concepts that I'm personally obsessed with for the past few years. The caretaker's music, liminal spaces, the dictionary of obscure sorrows, and dystopian movies. The eeriness of it all makes me strangely comfortable as if the world's chaotic reality, which gives us so much stress, was swept away inside an uncanny dream.

@jameschestnut9839 2 года назад

You HAVE to see Jasper Mall, a documentary about a mall that isn't as popular as it once was. I always hated malls, too crowded, too busy. But walking through a mall these days can engender a strange nostalgia of a time lost. I might be ultimately glad that it was lost, but it was a part of reality at one time...

@finn._.0874 2 года назад

You also could’ve mentioned a clockwork orange. That movie gave me a really big liminal space feeling and the dystopian London in it is amazing.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Yuppp, very true

@JohnMoseley 2 года назад

Eyes Wide Shut too.

@1pcfred 2 года назад

Guess who made A Clockwork Orange? His first name starts with S and his last name starts with a K. Singing in the rain, just singing in the rain.

@finn._.0874 2 года назад

@@1pcfred obviously I would know he’s like the greatest director oat

@1pcfred 2 года назад

@@finn._.0874 wasn't he mentioned in this video?

@maddybeech Год назад

The last line you said in this video "as humans we have the power to give meaning to emptiness" is so profound!! Genuinely that's some real like defining the "meaning of life" philosopher level shit. Bravo homie, well done. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this video

@macsnafu 2 года назад

I don't know if this counts as a liminal space, but one of my most powerful early memories is back when I was only 4 or 5. I'm in my bedroom, looking out the window as dusk starts, and I just keep watching the room get darker and darker, until I finally turn on the bedroom light. It was like the whole world was going dark, because I couldn't see any other lights from my bedroom window.

@nathanaelbingier4598 2 года назад

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things" takes place exclusively in liminal spaces of every category mentioned in this video. the most existentially unsettling movie I've ever seen

@Sun.Shine- 2 года назад

Oh man! Yes! The endless blizzard covered highway. They also added eery music to add to it. That film was a slow burn but sure was an experience! I think haunting in hillhouse had bits of liminal spaces also!

@silvermainecoons3269 7 месяцев назад

Giorgio DeChirico was a surrealist artist who painted liminal spaces before the concept had a name. Empty city streets, shadows, and an overwhelming sense of the uncanny. This was a great video, the best I’ve found so far on the subject of liminal spaces. Subscribed.

@leafbelly Год назад

Every single movie you mentioned is brilliant. These are all on my favorites list.

@willir1190 2 года назад

The fact that a lot of my favorite movies are featured in this video is fascinating and scary at the same time lol. But in all honesty, I loved this video. I am in general quite fascinated by liminal spaces and I loved how you connected this phenomenon to all these movies. It shines a whole different light on them I never really thought about. And I also loved how you went in really deep into the subject by dividing liminal spaces into physical, emotional and psychological. Thank you!

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

🙏🙏🙏 So great to hear, thank you kindly for the awesome comment

@nenemydog 2 года назад

Man I know what you mean. I have seen all the movies mentioned. Except 3. Two of those movies I had been planning to watch. Most of those movies have a really special place in my heart too. Especially 2001 and interstellar. Those really had something sublime about them that resonated with me on another level.

@chuckandmax7313 2 года назад

I live all alone in a big house, I moved here at the beginning of the pandemic. I moved from California to Texas and when I arrived at my new home after driving three days through the desert, I found no one to meet me, the key to the house was left under a squirrel statue in the back yard, the whole house was empty it was wonderful and surreal. The movers would not arrive with my things for four more days so I stayed in the house alone with nothing. It was the ultimate liminal space, and although I have filled it with furniture it’s still an empty house, I don’t know any of the neighbors and I don’t know where anything in the city is. On the drive to Texas everything was closed along the entire route it was the beginning of the national lockdown, all the rest areas were closed and I was able to find hotels to stay in each night but they were empty and you couldn’t leave your room. So bizarre

@SonicGerkin 2 года назад

Had a similar feeling flying over Quebec City in my helicopter, it was the middle of the day and you hardly saw anything move...

@merci2623 Год назад

The section on emotional liminal spaces perfectly described the transition I’m going through in my life as a high school senior transitioning into adulthood. That feeling of nostalgia, reflection has always been at the tip of my tongue. Chapter 2 actually painted a clearer picture, thanks for the insight.

@jonvia Год назад

I always loved walking the halls of my school whenever I had any sports or orchestral band gigs after school hours. It just felt so peaceful in an area that's usually really loud and full of kids hustling to their next class.

@LockeDemosthenes2 2 года назад

A good example of using liminal spaces for a creepy effect but in a theme park ride instead of a movie is The Twiight Zone Tower of Terror at Walt Disney World. The queuing area takes place in the grounds and lobby of an abandoned hotel, complete with very Shining-like old timey background music. The preshow then goes into an abandoned library, and afterwards guests are brought to the abandoned boiler room in the basement. The ride itself takes place on an old service elevator that hasn't run for years, and the elevator basically serves as the transition vehicle for leaving reality for the Twilight Zone. Midway through the ride, the elevator actually begins to move horizontally down a hotel hallway, which (I never thought about this before, but it's true) is literally a liminal space within a liminal space. The ride arguably also uses temporal liminal spaces in addition to physical ones, because it is designed to have a nostalgic feeling for the Golden Age of Hollywood of the 1920s and 1930s, and the framing device of using The Twilight Zone TV show as an overall theme, is nostalgic for people familiar with that show from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

@jewlian_3379 2 года назад

The editing and the narrating on point

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

🙏🙏🙏

@misty_gg 8 месяцев назад

You have covered the best movies of this decade and beyond. Great perspective and amazing video

@maybud60 Год назад

Apple's "Severance" was the first show that came to my mind while watching this incredible video. I immediately understood why the set and art direction had such an unsettling effect on me. Bravo!

@KarimMaassen 2 года назад

Stephen King's "The Langoliers" gives me that feeling of emptiness and "not supposed to be here" almost perfectly. It creeps me out. Such a great story as well.

@daniel.lopresti Год назад

Hah, just scrolling down reading comments and found another fan ;) (commented on the same film above). I was convinced it was an extremely niche (possibly cult?) production. Empty airports are the best. There's a video on RU-vid of someone who manages to travel through North Korea, and is able to film in a completely empty airport - pretty crazy! It's operational but simply has so few flights / flyers, that when he arrives in the morning there are but a handful of people.

@pendremacherald6758 2 месяца назад

I watched the Langoliers for tge first time last week and I loved it. The airport I most commonly fly out of it just as small as Bangor’s in the movie, and I have been there from 6AM to 2AM. I think the movie perfectly captures the feeling the place can have without the cozy airport music.

@Lukedalf 2 года назад

They're the perfect way to describe the feelings/experiences/realizations you go through when you go through anxiety and begin to "wake up"

@PortCharmers 2 года назад

Yes, in fact that is the first context in which I heard the term, more of a mental "place", rather than a physical one.

@yu1142 Год назад

incredible video essay. those last lines were haunting and hit me hard with their eloquence.

@Elfineerst Год назад

Another reason to rewatch a bunch of iconic movies and series. The ending of video and your sence of liminality - *chef kiss*. You did an amazing job thank you for the video 🙏

@DuCinema1 Год назад

Truly appreciate the awesome comment 🙏👑

@bigbraintime5361 2 года назад

Emotional liminal spaces. That is something i never thought about and its just spot on. The exact feeling i have when coming home from college and feeling like "im lost in space" (how i usually put it). I get this feeling at times when the environment around me or my routine is changing (or maybe after finishing a movie or show i was really invested in) . Great video!

@Muscleduck 2 года назад

Your video perfectly explains why I find urbexing (urban exploring) so fascinating. You're walking around in a building where once so many people worked or lived, and now it's in decay. Sometimes it's buildings that are closed off like they're little time capsules. Almost like in American Psycho, where it seems like the people left to run an errand and just never returned. Sometimes you come across some weird stuff and wonder what the story behind it is. Like a space I visited once that had boxes and boxes of combs. Probably thousands of combs in boxes. Edit: To add to the above: I would never have been able to put into words the feeling I have when I walk around those places. i'm not even sure if I was aware of this feeling. Your video made me reflect on this, so it was really inspiring.

@Camelepiz Год назад

Rod Serling is the Granddaddy of exploring liminal space on the screen long before it was a thing or a meme. The Twilight Zone is itself a liminal space.. so many great episodes that take place - The After Hours, Where Is Everybody? and sooo many more.

@kimberlymichellethomas9964 Год назад

This is beautiful. Thank you so much for your work, and for sharing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@Pain.- 2 года назад

Liminal spaces is almost like claustrophobia. The two are very connected to me

@pennyvdl 2 года назад

This is fascinating! I have dreams, sometimes nightmares about being trapped in places Ike this. Usually it’s a parking garage, but sometimes a it’s shopping center. I walk around and and around and can’t find my way out. This video captures the experience so well!

@djdissi 2 года назад

Was reminded of the very same thing while watching this too. I've had countless liminal dreams like that throughout my adult life. Elevators taking me on endless journeys in every direction including sideways (and often having to switch from one to another to get me to my destination - which i never do) or long empty tunnels, deep winding staircases, interconnecting rooms with no final exit...

@armandoestrada5224 Месяц назад

I LOVE empty places. Loved exploring them as a child. My mom was a M.S. teacher, and when she had a meetings I'd happily play on the empty schoolgrounds for hours. Always found a certain feeling of peace on empty places.

@magicknight13 Год назад

An absolutely PERFECT video! I love these spaces and the very concept of them. Brilliant

@zoe-ne3gb 2 года назад

i'm a massive horror fan and i remember watching 'us' and just being absolutely blown away by the backrooms scenes. i almost wanted to just stay there forever, watching the rabbits hop around, but i also felt super uncomfortable. awesome video - loved the bits from the shining. it's my favorite horror movie and you just peeled back another layer on its genius

@casually_tv 2 года назад

Absolutely masterful breakdown. Your choice of music across this is absolutely phenomenal. The moment I heard Portal's iconic sountrack at the start made me realise that this was definitely worth the full watch as that soundtrack encapsulates that same liminal feeling in an auditory way and that you truly understand what gives these liminal spaces their true detachment from what we perceive as reality. I am a little surprised you didn't bring up either The Stanley Parable or Black Mirror though, considering their subject matter, but very well done either way.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

🙏🙏🙏 Thank you so muchh for the awesome words!

@cathpalug1221 Год назад

This is why I love obscure mall, libraries during closing hour and parks during night

@Novas_Nook 4 месяца назад

Damn that end part was inspirational and terrifying and soothing at the same time. Thanks man. 🙏

@Adski975 2 года назад

THE HOUSE from the Sopranos is a good example, you know the one. Even if you didn't it probably registered in your subconscious watching the show. Tony's dream of his mother in "calling all cars", Uncle Pat's house in upstate NY, the house in hell (Finnerty reunion), Livia's house I can go on. It is so unnerving to me and that really is because it fits the liminal feeling. Even when he's at the "reunion" it feels empty, even though you can hear people. You barely see anyone yet they're making noise. This evokes a similar feeling to empty gmod maps with ambient city sound.

@NataliaMartinez-kp8ip 2 года назад

Loved this video!! I think the Netflix series “Dark” combines these liminal spaces. The anime “Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood” does so as well. 🙌🏻

@VitaliyHTC 2 года назад

Yes, I was also amazed by the series "Dark". Really interesting, one of my top list.

@Nugcon Год назад

I love the transitions between the movies, they're so smooth and satisfying

@peztopher7297 Год назад

All my life I've had dreams about moving into a new home, although some of them were altered versions of places I'd lived before. Sometimes I'm moving back in with former beloved roommates, my ex and/or my children. The homes always end up having more rooms than I expect. I used to think that they were dreams of nostalgia, wishing to return to another time in my life. I eventually realized that the homes represented myself and my life, and that I was going through a change, in reality or psychologically. This video makes sense as it describes these spaces of familiarity and unfamiliarity.

@kint5ugee 2 года назад

When I was in highschool I used to study late at night and it was all empty. The dining hall, the class rooms, the washrooms and nobody was outside. They were all in the dorm rooms sleeping. It was nice. Especially in comparison to how busy it all was during the day.

@brianwolf9647 2 года назад

This is what my house feels like when my kids aren’t living with me, but with their mother. Not a situation I chose. The things they leave behind, the space they should be occupying and without the noise they should be making, it feels like an alternate reality.

@Aiden-ham Год назад

This is the best description of liminal spaces I've seen. We use transitional spaces like stairways, halls, elevators, etc. all the time, but never spend prolonged periods there which is why they feel so weird when you do

@acousvnt 9 месяцев назад

Scenes like these can sometimes be a great relief in films that are otherwise visually busy, action-packed, and full of quick cuts.

@aqa195 2 года назад

just came across your channel and would have expected someone of your style and quality to have millions of subscribers; This content is top tier along the likes of Nexpo and Lemmino. Great video and i look forward to seeing your future content!

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Thank you so much man, that's really cool to hear!! One day I'll be as big as those legends

@isaiahvoss 2 года назад

Scott Pilgrim vs The World has liminal spaces as well when Scott goes through different doors throughout the movie until its ending when he wants to go with Ramona Flowers after he defeats her exes and he fought for her the whole time.

@mkdy218 Год назад

I was stranded in Birmingham's old New Street Railway station overnight after a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert November 2011. . A public space, in a public building, in a city that I'd never been to before, from 12 midnight it was devoid of people and the building was encapsulated by fog. The only sound I could hear was the whirring of the escalators. The sheer isolation and weirdness still haunt me to this day. There's more to this story, but I've never felt so profoundly alone as I did that night! I love the vid .

@michaelkim3432 Год назад

Wow, just wow! This video just blew my mind wide open. All too often it's easy to just consume cinema superficially; the sugary-entertainment glaze on the surface...but to dive deeper into the message and the poetry of how things fit together is really magical. Thank you!

@jasongreek2342 2 года назад

working in plumbing and hvac, I have found myself in these sorts of spaces quite a bit over the years. I actually enjoy them quite a bit. it's calming. there are few things to pull at the strings of my adhd brain and I can just... exist. it's almost meditative.

@healthyfruitsnack8720 2 года назад

I have no idea how your video got into my recommended, but im very glad that it did. Absolute top quality video

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

🙏🙏 That's amazing!! The algorithm is working folks hahah

@flvbbernvggets Год назад

Every single night, for most of my life, I have dreams that take place in shopping malls - they vary from empty malls, to every so slightly populated. Calm, nostalgic, and vaguely familiar. I just wish I knew why I basically have the same type of dream every single night.

@melizamm5233 Год назад

i have never felt so enthusiastic abt a youtube video in a long time this whole video is extremely well made. everything abt it is so brilliantly explained and the editing is perfect. thank u truly thank u❤️

@DuCinema1 Год назад

❤️🙌 I really appreciate the awesome words

@johnbeech 2 года назад

"As humans we have the power to give meaning to emptiness" Thank you for that. I think you could add liminal spaces in music - as you did with the soundtrack to your video. There were some obvious classics that expand the feeling of emptiness and transition.

@dominoscatnip5922 2 года назад

I cried so hard at the end of this video. You contextualized a feeling I couldn't understand and I feel like I really, really needed this and this helped me so much. Thank you.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

This is why I do it. Thank you for your amazing comment ❤️🙏

@Iwasneverhere84 Год назад

this is the most fascinating videos I've ever seen. It perfectly encapsulates what liminal spaces are. This was wayyyy deeper than I thought it would be. An amazing video with incredible editing and production etc. I have one plight though, some liminal spaces do bring feelings of sadness, but some are comforting. Overall an amazing video!!

@pp5810 Год назад

I'm impress by the video, the scrip, the narration of it and the editing is astonishing. One of the best videos I've ever seen ln YT. Congrats mate❤️

@onlinetheory5115 2 года назад

Well done. Excellent job of having an idea, clearly and efficiently flushing it out, and presenting it in such a way that can be obtained by the general public, while still maintaining a level of value and intellect. While I don't personally agree with everything stated, I certainly respect that you have a solid defense for everything you presented, and for that you have my respect. I look forward to seeing more content like this in the future. Hard work pays off, and it's noticeable here with your video. Good job.

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Love, thank you so much!❤️🙏

@bugfart81623 2 года назад

great vid man

@DuCinema1 2 года назад

Thank you! 🙌🙌

@analyticsystem4094 8 месяцев назад

Fun fact: The album Everywhere at the end of time by The Caretaker is a representation of the developing stages of Dementia. The album starts with music from the 60s with little static but as it progresses it slowly transitions to just sounds with no structure. Eventually not even sounding like music anymore. It’s a weird experience listening to all six hours at once but it’s worth it if you have the time

@matthewboire6843 8 месяцев назад

I have heard of it and it is a very bizarre thing, I haven’t listened to it.

@ninal309 Год назад

Beautifuly made video.. I haven't seen majority of movies, but I've seen almost every one on the list (including The Holy Mountain, which can't be unseen), because I felt attraced to them, but mostly I accidently stumbled accross them. I wasn't aware of the phenomenon, but I love these spaces, it feels monumental and comforting at the same time. Like when there's thunder outside, but you are at a safe space of your home or something