spirit of space gallery

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www.spiritofspace.com

Contacts

Director Adam Goss
847.630.1027
adam@spiritofspace.com

Executive Producer Sam Thomas
773.480.7763
samantha@spiritofspace.com

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. [Arrupe Hall, Moto Designshop]

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. [Thrival Geographies: In My Mind I See A Line for Amanda Williams, Andres Hernandes, and Shani Crowe]

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

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.

The average Vignette is $11,000, Edited Story $22,500, and Feature $35,000.

Audiences continuously find a communication gap between space and experience. We believe this gap is caused by the traditional mind-frame that art and architectural imagery should be focused on iconicity, not the intent.

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.

For Chicago's Invest S/W design competition the team representing Pivot North Lawndale collected voices of the community team members that informed the design intent. This moving experience not only brought the design team together under one roof, it formed new connections with the community.

JAHN turned 5 years of competition losses that used virtual animations to 5 consecutive competition wins when we produced videos of the design process.

It wasn't the design content. It was the tools for communication.

Our first client, Jeanne Gang, has built a 15 year film archive with our team to communicate her firm ethos.

Our stories have transformed the way she speaks with her audiences in lectures, presentations, and interviews. Film also changed the way the Studio wins work.

When we edit films to be submitted with the firm’s qualifications the firm has a 100% success rate including the California College of Art. The school decided to continue filming the design process for their fundraising and covered the full costs to document the design process.

In the spring of 2020, Michael Van Valkenburgh was notified that Brooklyn Bridge Park was one of ten projects nominated for the prestigious Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize. The presentation had to be done virtually, but he also knew the jury had to connect authentically with the version of New York he lives in where everyone comes together in the park. He called Spirit of Space with a request to create a Cinema Verite style study of the park. The film would include no design voices - just honest people.

The Project Won the Award.

Spirit of Space is a team of architectural optimists driven by this desire to disqualify the assumption that a single image can represent a project.

Through interviews with Nina and Daniel Libeskind, Carla Swickerath, Yama Karim, and Stefan Blach we learn how the Studio's work creates spaces of empathy and caring for others.

SPIRIT OF SPACE + COMPETITIONS

To win a competition, architects must take time to connect and empathize with people outside the profession. Spirit of Space films build authentic connections that go beyond the objectiveness of architecture to deliver the sights, sounds, and story of the site.