A Sense of Place

Growing up, Becca Voelcker would drive with her parents 20 miles to the local cinema, which showed a foreign film once every month. “This was long before I knew what the word ‘director’ meant or what it was to make a film,” the PhD student in film and visual studies explains. From her early teens, Voelcker was intoxicated by films’ ability to capture the essence of place. “I could almost feel the steam from dumplings cooking in some Hong Kong street vendor’s cart or feel the sand in the desert,” she reminisces. “I was living in North Wales, but somehow I could get a sense of all of it.”

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