• Info
• • Format: SD PAL 16:9 QT
  • Duration: 1min 20secs

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• Links

• www.quayola.com
• www.mtvonedotzero.com

• Credits
• • Director: Quayola
  • Animation: Quayola and Paul Mumford
  • Audio: Autobam
  • Photography: James Medcraft

• Description

This project is a commissison from Onedotzero to director Quayola for the MTV Bloom competition. The work is an investigation into the icons of Rome’s renaissance architecture and the dissolution of their compactness. Through a combination of photographs and computer-generated graphics, “Rome” aims to create a series of images where the subject is de-contextualized from its historical and cultural implications. A process of metamorphosis transforms the architectural matter. Its solid three-dimensional spatiality mutates into an ephemeral two dimensional skin made of geometrical shapes and colors, obtaining a new incompact reality. The images represent these transmutations in a specific moment in time, like if an external spectator photographed them. Assuming different meanings, the represented buildings appear under a new perspective that focuses on their images rather than their historical and architectural significance.