In recent years, film has become an increasingly valued medium in the communication of architecture.
In recent years, film has become an increasingly valued medium in the communication of architecture. This has gone hand in hand with new technology and the abundance of devices that make it easy to consume film wherever you are.
Tapio Snellman is a filmmaker based in London whose work has played an important part in the realisation of curatorial concepts. He worked with Ricky Burdett on the Venice Architecture "Global Cities" Biennale in 2006 producing a series of animated video installations over 19 screens. In 2012, he was part of the curatorial team for the British Council’s Lina Bo Bardi exhibition that has now toured ten countries. This year, Tapio Snellman collaborated with Jonathan Tuckey Design on the "Building on The Built" exhibition hosted by Argent in Kings Cross, London.
Below is a link to the film made for "Building on The Built" featuring Jonathan Tuckey’s Collage House. The film focuses on the life of the home and is in stark contrast to the many recordings of buildings that objectify these whilst seeking a singular, iconic narrative. Tapio is instead interested in how it feels to be part of a building, how it might encourage you to live, how places become occupied and how over time they become a part of your memories and subconscious. This approach is also comparable to Tapio’s way of treating urban projects that despite their vast scale have - through his lens - an intimacy and cultural specificity about them.
Other recent projects by Tapio Snellman include his film from the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. The film was sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and its affiliate organisation the Seoul Design Foundation with generous support from the SH Corporation.
"In this short film simply and existentially titled Seoul, fragments of time, space, and sound become a lens through which one can grasp the megacity of Seoul. Through a heightened instinctual response only available to an outside observer new to the city, Snellman captures glimpses of the quotidian and the extraordinary throughout the duration of a single day. In this way, the city becomes discernable as a continuum of events and relationships as well as natural and constructed ecologies. " John Hong, Curator
Tapio Snellman has also worked as an artist. After more than two months of night time painting by a team of four, Tapio Snellman’s mural along the walls of Manila’s busiest underpass was completed in March 2012. The painting, called Cubao Incision, is one of a series of painting along Metro Manila’s Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, one of the world’s major urban arteries.
Commissioned by Boysen Paints to draw attention to their revolutionary air-cleaning paint, KNOxOUT, each of the mural’s ca 2000 square metre’s of painted surface has the pollutant absorbing effect of a mature tree.
Curated by TAO together with Judy Freya Sibayan. Supported by Metro Manila Development Authority.
source: press release
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