https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/e85c17a102a100ed28ab27a55f05d7cb.png 3de5fac4c1e8b031b5b3eb37f1c9ce41 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alex Wester: A Film About the Spaces We Leave Behind Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Empty university classroom with rows of desks. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/ca9a4b5d64cc9f1c52ea2bcdfa8dc8b5.png b4ee3667f5e34a7d11a34fefc15eb00b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alex Wester: A Film About the Spaces We Leave Behind Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. The historic Mizzou Columns standing on Francis Quadrangle. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/b4683ec7414ceac9c04ffa053cb93069.png 8f5798d0447f112eeade1f6de0b12c21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alex Wester: A Film About the Spaces We Leave Behind Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Exterior view of the Missouri Student Union building on campus. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/8f2078c6570c3892b2c193a868a4db4b.png 84dc8c8a2f5d620d4aca980c368511fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alex Wester: A Film About the Spaces We Leave Behind Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Single trail of footprints crossing fresh snow. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/3890c33d325e95c15e08b2d0e3f86741.mp4 9a672e591188f7436d1d43bc37928a5d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Film About the Spaces We Leave Behind Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wester, Alex Abstract A summary of the resource. This short film came from an interest in what we choose not to confront. Rather than telling a conventional story, A Film About the Spaces We Leave Behind focuses on environments, pauses, and the feeling that something's recently been there. Centered on quiet traces of life like an empty classroom, a silent hallway, footprints pressed into fresh snow, and a bike left at a rack. The spaces in the film are treated as a record of lived experiences, places that continue to hold meaning even after they’ve been left. Visually, every frame is composed with subjects placed on the right side of the rule of thirds, leaving negative space to dominate the left side of the image. This imbalance reinforces absence and creates a lingering tension within still environments. The color palette remains consistently blue throughout the film, cooling the spaces emotionally and visually. All shots are static and held longer than expected, allowing viewers time to sit with the image and feel its emptiness. I was interested in how meaning can exist without any dialogue or explanation, and how absence itself can become a form of storytelling. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026