the film

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Our goal was to create a complex future atmosphere, resistant to easy moralizations. In order to deal with this atmosphere, traditional architectural drawings, a peculiar and unfortunately opaque and enduring form of abstraction, are incapable of integrating issues such as time, ambience, light, context, experience, performance and emotion that are important to a discussion with the public about our future environment. Rather we looked to film and such references as the photography of Andreas Gursky, the work of We love to build and Julian Schnabel’s the Diving Bell and the Butterfly for inspiration.

Rather than relying on the authenticating statistics, diagrams and strategies that underlie our provocations, we preferred to communicate by working across the boundaries of our discipline, hooking up with a fantastic team of film makers and animators from UTS in the adjoining department, who un-like architects, are actually trained to communicate visually with the public.

In the end though, we think of these types of experiments as a vital part of our discipline which we are enthusiastic about embracing.

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