GRANDEZA STUDIO + LOCUMENT

STRATA INCOGNITA 

2023 |Documentary| Portugal and Spain|16m

STRATA INCOGNITA is a short film commissioned for the Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2023: “The Laboratory of the Future” and developed as a collaboration between Grandeza Studio and Locument that looks at the soil as an infrastructure for the production of food, but also, as a somatic archive of crimes, memories, and mythologies.
Just a few centimetres under your feet, millions of creatures kill each other, eat each other, fight, reproduce and establish alliances with one another – implementing the myriad processes that recompose death into life while purifying the water you drink, making the air you breathe breathable, and growing 95% of the food you eat. You are digested soil. Any time you eat, the substances that compose soils reconstitute into the matter that shapes you. Nevertheless, many of the creatures and ecosystemic processes that make soils function resist being captured by knowledge production methods firmly bound by the regimes of the visible. Indeed, it is estimated that in a tablespoon of soil there are more living organisms than human beings on Earth, but only about 10% of small soil animals have been identified by humans. Soil is our closest alien world.

Followed by an online conversation with Francisco Lobo and Romea Muryń of LOCUMENT

The event takes place as part of the AATE 2025 Film + Architecture workshop supported by Screen Ireland. 

AATE & IFI present Irish Focus: 

Temptation of Influence 

2025 | Ireland, Italy, USA, UK | 44’

Temptation of Influence is a filmic essay and a collage exploring how architectural ideas are passed down, reinterpreted and inevitably misread across generations. It begins in the Dublin study of architect Shane de Blacam, where Palladio’s Four Books line the walls beside sketches by Shane’s teacher and friend Louis Kahn. From this intimate setting, the film journeys across Ireland, the Veneto and the East Coast of the United States, tracing the fragile mechanics of architectural inheritance through buildings, landscapes and conversations. Contributors include Kenneth Frampton, Níall McLaughlin, Sheila O’Donnell, Mary Laheen, Peter Carroll and others, reframing how influence moves through memory, encounter and place.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Marko Milovanovic in conversation with Peter Carroll, Director at A2 Architects and Head of Architecture at SAUL.

Director/Writer: Marko Milovanovic
Producers: Frank Monahan, Paolo Barkett

Showing as part of the IFI Irish Focus monthly strand showcasing new Irish film. 

Supported by British Council (Ireland).

Architect Part 1 & Glass House 
Film Screening

A screening of two short films shot in the west of Ireland, by artist Laura Gannon. Each film is set in a specific architectural location, responding to female creativity, rural architecture, and migration. Architect Part 1 will be screened alongside an earlier film Glass House. 

In Architect Part 1, a farmhouse sits on a mountainside, uninhabited for decades, its interior and exterior eroded by the elements. This is a result of its owner emigrating to England and the house was sold along with the farm. A reveal of architecture and the body, rural landscapes and migration. In Glass House, the film examines a modernist church built in Connemara in 1962. Local emigrants who emigrated to America send back money to pay for its construction and furnishing. It features a stained-glass window designed by artist Phyllis Burke. Making visible modernity, a rural setting and an emigrant community who funded the building.

Followed by a conversation with film director Laura Gannon and architect Jessica Reynolds, vPPR architects, with Fiona Kearney founding Director of the Glucksman Gallery, Cork.