Prompted by the current quarantine situation, I think it is important to think about what urban living has been like, in order to consider how domestic space might be redefined in future after the crisis. In the recent past, film has observed and depicted experiential scenes of everyday life situations in city environments in such a way as to foreground notions of home, culture and traditions. All highly relevant themes in the present times.

It can be argued, that film space and architectural space collide, and reform one another. Architecture is a spatial construction which involves time and cinema is a temporal construction which involves space. But both of them speak about lived spaces through different ways, where film spaces construct fiction and architectural spaces construct reality.

This dissertation aims to explore ideas of urban domesticity through analysis of a number of fictional houses represented in three eastern films made between 1953 and 2019. It assumes that temporal and imagined spaces of the home constructed through cinema are a useful tool in the analysis of the atmosphere and meaning of ‘real’ architectural spaces, with the potential to inform speculations on the future.