Building the Earth - A Tribute to the Life and Work of Architect Manuel Gomes da Costa is an immersive film that evokes the constructive and poetic thinking of this unique architect.
Through 3D animation created from scratch and an original sound composition, the piece offers a sensory dive into the gesture of drawing, designing and inhabiting - from the blank sheet to the built space, from structure to silence, from light to place.
Based on an analysis of the built work and Gomes da Costa's thinking, the film constructs a visual and sound narrative in which architecture reveals itself as a body, as a landscape and as inhabited time. Without resorting to words, the narrative is drawn in layers of line, volume, matter, light and shadow, sound and silence, in which each line is a gesture of listening.
The piece proposes a contemplative and sensitive approach, where architecture relates to the territory, to light, to time and proposes an intimate and radical approach to the matter of architecture as a way of being in the world.
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Duration: 09'08 min loop
Year: 2025
Concept and Artistic Direction: Oskar & Gaspar
Project management: Francisco Leone
Art Direction: Ana Slice
Composition / Sound design: Oscar Benito
Production Direction: Sofia Leone
Curator: Joana Carmo (Museu Zer0) and Gonçalo Vargas
Production: Oskar & Gaspar
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