Crade et Vivant - Film and Fabrication workshop

With Film Director Michele Gondry

It confronted the disciplines of cinema and architecture, mixing medias such as film, photography and digital fabrication. Set up as a collaboration between Michel Gondry, Edouard Cabay and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, the workshop’s objective was the creation of a short film in which each frame was physically fabricated using robotic technology, treating each image as a constructed object. The process of the workshop is axed along 4 actions - filming / making / shooting / editing. As a starting point, we filmed short 10 seconds clips in the city. We then “manufactured” all of the stills in the material of our choice, using numerically controlled machines . All of these constructed images which we then photographed with the help of Mr. Gondry to reconstruct the initial 10 second clip; as a final act, all the clips were mounted together in a 3-minute film.

Swing Movie : materials used - laser cut cork on MDF board frames

Water ripples : Caramelised sugar by laser machine