The establishing shots that appear from time to time, hint that the space is an airplane, but it is the audience who must do the work of imagining the backdrop," says Kaul, who shuttles between Mumbai and Durham, where she teaches art and filmmaking at Duke University.
His Brooklyn is a shadowy backdrop to an intensely imagined personal journey, the poignant history of Eilis Lacey and her sister, Rose.
Not the harsh social landscape of modern Britain -- which functions as a convenient, familiar backdrop rather than a fully imagined environment -- so much as Mr. Considine's wearying reliance on the link between misery and authenticity.
His death is even more haunting because the love he showed took place against the backdrop of unsettling violence, both real and imagined, both in structural forces and intimate spaces, often conjured or measured by his own pen.
More than a backdrop, you imagine colour just as you imagine music.
It is difficult to imagine against such a backdrop, that Walmart's business model, predicated on squeezing suppliers and aiming towards the lowest common denominator, will escape proper scrutiny.
The Wedding scene at Cana, famous for the miracle where Jesus saves the party by turning water into wine, is an episode that has often been the backdrop for imagining the Jesus-and-John romance.
The voyages of these scientists around the globe and the reader's imagined voyages in time to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century form the backdrop of an intellectual voyage.
Behind them on a big screen will be Dudamel and his musicians, providing both the backing and the backdrop, thanks to audio and video technology that no one would have imagined back on Dec. 6, 1964.
She and her group perform on a stage with Google Earth backdrops of her hometown in Ireland; groups of songs explore love, memories, imagined lives and more love.
The result is mostly cumbersome and "artisanal," but, in the end, this unconvincing backdrop serves to show us Abili's performance in relief: he takes O'Neill's imagined blackness and makes it real.
