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film pitch
Finalist entry for the 2019 AFTRS/SCCI Accessing Architecture Competition
“For people to access your designs,
you must first listen to them.”
In early 2019 the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) & the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) created a competition to access $6000 funding for a short film that would address the topic of ‘Accessing Architecture’.
My idea for this pitch stemmed from two talks given at Melbourne’s annual MPavillion MTalks series: Glenn Murcutt in Conversation with Sean Godsell and Blackitechture: Indigenising Procurement.
I entered this competition as a writer working in collaboration with AFTRS third year BA students. This proposal document was selected as a finalist to be judged by a panel led by Emile Sherman, MD of See-Saw Films and Oscar-winning producer (The King’s Speech, Lion, Shame, Top of the Lake); Georgie McLean, Acting CEO at AFTRS; and Dr Gene Sherman, AM, founder and director of SCCI.
The project ultimately was not given the green light due to budget difficulties. It was a humbling learning experience in advocacy for the social role of architecture and the spiritual connection that is possible between people and place.
concept video
The video below was created to set the thematic tone for the team, intending to communicate the spiritual dimension of the architecture.
Narration was sampled from Murcutt’s description of the co-design process for Marika Alderton House, spoken in conversation with Sean Godsell at MTalks on Saturday the 26th of November, 2016.
Backing audio track is After the Rain by Sleep D and Albrecht La’Brooy, utilising samples from the Australian temperate rainforest during a rainy period.
Visuals were lifted from a documentary on Glenn Murcutt’s Simpson Lee House.