Chappell is very good at evoking the intimacy she achieves with London, a city so many find impersonal.
By placing photorealistic human figures in abstract, surreal environments, Tan evokes the intimacy of an individual immigrant experience without ever settling on a specific person, time or place.
There's no attempt to evoke the anonymous intimacy of the confessional.
At a time when newly built colossal structures strain to evoke the old-time intimacy of a baseball game, Wrigley Field, built in 1914, is the real thing.
De Bernières evokes the particular intimacy of this legendary battle, and he humanizes war without minimizing its horror.
His "Eyes in the Sky," set to a minimalist score by the French composer René Aubry, offered five sections of sweeping movement of wheeling high legs, crumpled lifts and odd, staggering walks, mostly performed in unison and evoking the forced intimacy of crowded societies.
And in so precisely evoking the prickly intimacy of a loosely knit group of friends and lovers, the movie is a triumphant return to form for Mr. Frears, whose last film, the turgid modern western "The Hi-Lo Country," found him way out of his element.
The intimacies licensed by the business of getting one's hair cut evoke the kinds of masculine "closeness casual once in the trenches", Laird reflects, and depend on "remembering when not to mention / the troubles or women or prison".
In a short video preview, the work appears to evoke the grand scale of a metropolis more than the intimacy of a Milonga; vibrant color plays a central role, as do large groups of dancers moving in unison.
The rooms upstairs also evoke the past.
