Mass Times Acceleration

Film | H.264 video using iPhone 5c | 97 seconds | 2015

A version of this piece has screened under the title Taking Flight.

Screened as part of CINECITY 2015 at Loop Gallery in Melbourne.

First Choice Selection of CINECITY 2015 Judge Kasper Guldager Jensen.

Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2015 Australian National Architecture Conference in Melbourne.

Received Honorable Mention at the ArchiShorts 2016 Short Film Competition, Winnipeg.

Upon its completion in 1973, Ron Thom declared the Robarts Library to be an “illustrated dictionary of architectural miseries.” While aesthetically risky and initially hated, decades later the building has evolved into a celebrated icon of Brutalist style. This perceptual inversion is an instance of architecture having the ability, over time, to be liberated and take flight from the shackles of negative foundations.