And if you have any sort of mantelpiece tchotchkes in your home, they’re probably scale models of people or things. They’re like Russian dollsMany of the miniature dioramas seen in the movie feature mini-miniatures, like architectural models or a half-built model ship inside tiny studios. And the model village in Britain’s Bourton on the Water, created in 1937, contains its own miniature town, which contains yet another and, almost impossible to make out, another. An academic notes that a miniature chair has all the “chair-ness” of the real thing but is totally unusable as a chair. Miniature screens Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. at the Ted Rogers Hot Docs cinema in Toronto, and on Super Channel.

Source: National Post February 01, 2019 16:30 UTC