spirit of space gallery

Olson Kundig

When it comes to working on site we remain flexible and keep our team light to make sure we can get the shots we need to communicate your vision.

When it comes to distribution we utilize our expertise and network to share it as widely as possible. While our films are exhibited in galleries, biennials, and festivals - it is building empathy that truly matters.

In each Review Stage our clients have access to the archive of available footage, and a method to collect feedback from multiple team members directly into the film - this minimizes time in review for all team members.

In production, we take time to ask questions that will guide us toward the visuals which will best represent the reality of the spaces for history.

With direct access to the leaders of Design, we help each client produce a film that suits their firm culture and communication strategy.

We listen and refine the story to match the needs of your audience.

Our team of four produces, directs, edits, and composes
each Spirit of Space film.

Pricing

Our costs are calculated based on the amount of time dedicated to the project [similar to architecture services] and are billed at a standard day rate consistent with the costs of architectural photography.

Filming - $5,000 per day

Editing - $2,000 per day

Sound - $3,000 per project

All prices include multiple client rate. We invite you to share the film widely and distribute it to your client and project team.

Vignettes introduce a project through a sequence of short clips. [Brand Revisioning with Trahan Architects]

Edited Stories provide a deeper introduction to a firm or project and often introduce a voice or voices of leadership, the clients, and end-users. For these films we compose a soundtrack and integrate the site sounds to build a complete understanding of the value added by the project. [KCRW for Clive Wilkinson Architects]

Features are long term projects that track the duration of a firm or a project as it is designed and made. These films provide a full history of a project from fundraising to walking the landscape after it has taken hold on site. [Benchmark School for SHoP Architects].

To explore the contexts behind, around, and within the studio ethos we use three primary film typologies - vignettes, edited stories, and features.

Films show us who we are as a culture [STATIC for the KAAN Architecten Minutes Series 2019]

They reach a global audience through authentic communication and Design innovation
[Studio Gang's Beloit College Powerhouse]

Films transport us to places we can't see and connect us to our own memories and associations
[UNRELEASED Brooklyn Bridge Park for Michael Van Valkenburgh]

They share the vision of the Design [Steven Holl's The Reach]

We produce films to serve multiple purposes beyond promotion. They are for history.

The Jüdisches Museum in Berlin is hard to forget. Its poignant impression pierces the memory and expands shortly after its initial puncture. Standing in stark contrast to the original Baroque building, its expression is immediately felt.

"La Tourette must not be spoken about, but must be lived from within." Le Corbusier

Olson Kundig

We exist because architects require contemporary tools to communicate the value of architecture.

Audiences continuously find a communication gap between space and experience. Buildings and landscapes are not what is expected when we visit them for the first time. They are either shorter or taller, lighter or darker, or sitting alongside a highway when you thought it was perfectly placed in a meadow.

We believe this gap is caused by the traditional mind-frame that art and architectural imagery should be focused on iconicity, not the intent. Additional attention must be given to explaining and categorizing the thoughts behind the effort in order to make it relevant to a larger audience. Therefore, the art of our filmmaking lies in taking sequential authentic experiences and directing and editing in such a way that the emotional intensity of the project is felt.

Spirit of Space is driven by a desire to disqualify the assumption that a single image can represent a project and the needs of the people behind it.

Films that reveal the context
of built and natural landscapes

Edited Stories can provide insight into a firm, philosophy, or idea as shown above in the feature on Studio Gang's latest monograph.

They are also often used for competition films such as the California College of Arts example below.