AATE Festival Film + Architecture Workshop 2025
Architecture at the Edge and Copenhagen Architecture Forum (CAFx) have partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop in response to the AATE 2025 Festival thematic provocation of ‘The Unseen Architecture’, focusing on filmmaking and environmentally conscious, inclusive design, architecture and urban planning.
Led by Sabrina Morreale + Lorenzo Perri, (@Lemonot), in close collaboration with Tom Kerr Bell and Sofie Stilling, (assistant professor at Royal Danish Academy, Architecture, Design and Conservation) we will explore Galway’s Architeture of the Invisible revealing the hidden worlds which are as close to us as they are strange.
Special guests include Romea Muryn & Francisco Lobo, (@locument), Writer / Director Matthew Gandy, and others to be announced.
Date/ Duration:
Sunday 28 September – Saturday 04 October
Location:
Based at The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid lane, Galway.
The course fee for 2025 is €100 - Early Bird 25% discount applies for applications received before 10 September!
Free Access Tickets Available - We are committed to ensuring the accessibility of this event for all individuals, irrespective of their financial circumstances. We offer a limited number of access tickets to those who may not be in a position to purchase a ticket. Kindly contact at learning@architectureattheedge.com for further details.
The fee includes tuition, lectures, film screeings and workshop supervision. It does not include travel to and from the course or daily meals, however, participants will be invited to an opening celebration meal and wrap party and we can arrnage for discounted rates from our accommodation partners at The Nest Boutique Hostel, Salthill.
The course is open to anyone interested in the intersection of film and architecture - students and professionals alike, with a background in a relevant field of film, visual arts, photography, architecture, design, urban planning, anthropology, ethnology, social sciences and humanities. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of film production.
There is a maximum of 20 places available for the course. It is important for us to see examples of your work to help us make our final selection. In submitting an application please provide a link to your website or a pdf of your work which we can review. The course will conclude with an exhibition of works completed by participants over the one-week programme.
To Apply:
Forward your application consisting of a motivation letter / short biography (max 1 page) + CV / a brief portfolio no later than 15th of September 2025 to learning@architectureattheedge.com.
We will select participants and get back with a reply by 12th September 2025.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Program
During the one-week program, through lectures, group exercises and guided explorations of Galway, we invite participants to response to the AATE25 thematic provocation of ‘the unseen architecture’.
Participants are introduced to practices of investigative observation, research, and new ways of mapping the city and apply this knowledge to create a short film documenting the special characteristics found in the built environment of Galway city.
During five intensive days, we would have the opportunity to compose our mapping of the city, underlining borders, infrastructures, analysing soil ownership, mobility, accessibility, uses and care practices. We will work in parallel between visual images, movements, times, camera rhythms and the collection of interviews, urban and spatial fragments, human and non-human, which will become part of a catalogue, in constant evolution.
AATE 2025 wants you to “be there” and to “stay” - learning how to observe and how to remain within this state, acknowledging that you can’t intervene in everything, you can’t regenerate everything - yet you can interact with processes of city’s transformation through visual language and embodied research.
Through collective observation methods, we will explore the context of Galway by looking at two contrasting scales:
- Observation on Nature - the relationship between the riverscape and the urban fabric, the sounds, the composition of the soil, natural features
- Observation on the highway - the industrial site, the noise, pollution, crafters, etc
After developing the concept for your film in the first sessions with the guidance of international guest lectures, you will explore the process of filmmaking, gaining concrete knowledge about organizing, filming and editing your work, as well as creating a relevant, dramaturgically well-functioning story. Professional filmmakers and editors, Sofie Stilling, and others, will instruct you and assist you in the production of a maximum 4-minute-long film.
The course will conclude with an exhibition of works completed by participants over the one-week programme. All the films produced during the workshop will be premiered at Festival on Saturday 04th October at 16:30pm.