A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
Fullscreen it, please.
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saw this a few weeks ago... absolutely insane... I suggest watching it on the vimeo site itself so you can see it in 'HD'.
This CGI is more realistic than avatar!
It's so beautiful, I almost wanna cry.
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I'm going against the grain, I guess, or else I just don't get it.
It's not actual footage of the buildings, right? It's all CGI? I'm not sure I understand the point.
Mostly I was frustrated that it was both too fast and too slow. The introduction was too long, with too many shots of the camera. When it finally got to one good panning view of the barcelona Pavilion, it was like coitus interruptus: right as I started enjoying the slow, luxurious pan, the scene switched to something else.
I WANT to love this, as everyone I know on Facebook (and here) seems to think it's amazing. Long, slow, detail-focused, lovingly caressing shots of the Barcelona would actually have me mesmerized for hours. This was just frustrating. What am I missing?
@ lb:
also-i'm not sure there is anything to "get"...
"...visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."-- René Magritte
Thank you for the recommendation - I read Poetics of Space in 1992. I still don't understand why everyone is going crazy over this particularly good piece of CGI, set to beautiful music, unless it's just for the fact of it focusing on architecture.
I don't mean to be snarky, I love that it focuses on architecture. I'd love to see a film about architecture that would make me cry (some have, I'm sure, though I can't recall specifics right now).
To me a film of the actual buildings would be far less frustrating, would even be gorgeous.
liberty..you missed nothing.....trust me..you missed nothing
@ lb
i totally understand what you are saying and actually agree. being able to see the entire buildings would be more satisfying on an certain level. but this film seems to take a completely different approach [than say a doc film like nathaniel kahn's "my architect"]. this film seems less about the architecture, but more about the events that could occur in these places inside our imagination [more subjectively-the author's].
the fact that it was mostly CGI makes it less believable, and more incredible in my mind. I understand also that the technical accomplishments of this film's creation may be it's one trick pony, but the depiction is done so well that i begin to question my own perception [ironic right?]. for me-- trying to experience a good building is very frustrating, and in a strange way this film captures it through the compositions. you never really get to experience the whole thing, only moments [kind of like real life]. i know it's personal taste, but i enjoy being reminded of those contradictions.
some of the most frustrating moments i've ever had while experiencing architecture was visiting the pantheon every morning for an entire week. each time was different and beautiful, but now I can't quite seem to remember any one particular moment exactly. and to top it off, i could never quite photograph the space in a way that I was satisfied with! it seems like all good buildings somehow have that inherent inability to be captured on film...
i'm not trying to get you to "like" this film, only trying to elaborate on why i enjoyed it.
and don't worry, no snarkiness detected.
Thank you, archaalto. That's actually a nice way to describe it - that by showing one moment of, for example, sunlight falling on travertine it's reminiscent of those moments of joy that Michael Benedikt talks about us finding in architecture.
Reminds me too of the Agnes Martin installation, On A Clear Day. Thirty canvases very subtly different, like the sky changing over the course of the sun moving across.
And I definitely agree that I would not have been able to tell it was CGI if I wasn't told up front. It's pretty stunningly realistic.
impressive...i've heard the music in a movie before. i want to say gattaca - very similar tone and cinematography
I think this sorto f thing sets expectations way tooo high!
for me, even though it is a similar theme, that film looks like a mechanical drawing compared to this one. but for this view, i only blame myself!
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