Closure.
Art and Film. Two Figures (2): Closure. Illustration 1: 'Exotica', 1994, film; Atom Egoyan, director; Paul Sarossy, cinematographer; Mia Kirshner, actress; Bruce Greenwood, actor. A striptease artist presses herself against the body of an obsessive, estranged customer: ' He's a very particular case ... [she says] ... he's just so fucked up!'. Her encroachment into the right half of the frame leaves a gap (left) where the performer and object of male fantasy should be [compare Illustration 2]: Illustration 2: 'We've always had this understanding ... I need him for certain things, and he needs me'. Their overlapping silhouettes (Illustration 1) combine in a closure effect, that seems to encapsulate the intense emotional consonance of these two damaged characters. Illustration 3: 'In Bed, The Kiss', 1892, painting; Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec. A separation of lights (bodies and bedding) and darks (hair an