Throughout the twentieth century, film and architecture have played out a relationship forged in space, and thus may be cast as spatial, one that mutually informs and interpenetrates. Architectural and cinematic practice thrives on the apprehension of space, taking on the flesh of time and inhabiting a life of movement. The most interesting contribution of conema to architecture is how film creates a distinct synthetic space, through the accretion of fragmentary images over time through montage and the dogged stalking of science in deep focus. In a way then, the house of architecture has many rooms, and the cinema roams. The title of this book Pa(ng)LABAS is doubly coded to encompass both the concepts of projected moving images (palabas) and the exteriority of architecture (panglabas). Both poist a sense of place, a sense of locus. The collection of archival images dramatizes the juxtaposition of architecture and imaginary environment of the cinema, and at the same time, probes the transformation of Filipino space, architecture, and urban landscape as visualized through the cinematic lens.