Locument is a research studio that combines filmmaking with architecture and urban research. They use architecture and film as analytical, critical and subversive tools to emphasise contemporary issues and dissect their resolutions. They see the importance of observing rapidly changing social conditions through the influential factors of technology, economy, politics and urban environment.
Drawing from contemporary scenarios, Locument travels to unique locations to base their research topics, finding in them situations that, while site-specific, reflect problematics that resonate throughout the globe. Bringing out these underlying stories, their work focuses on recreating the complex storyline hidden under the surface of the visible spectrum. In a world moving exponentially faster, they see the importance of slowing down, researching, analysing, documenting and capturing a network of often contradictory points of view, thus revealing the narratives that influence our reality. Locument envisions the future and the past, and not the least, our time.
Locument’s movies have been screened internationally at exhibitions and film festivals such as – the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy; the 25th Biennial of Design Ljubljana, Slovenia; Arquiteturas Film Festival, Portugal; Archstoyanie Festival Festival at the Nikola-Lenivets Art Park, Russia; In-Between Conditions Media Art Festival Tbilisi, Georgia; Commiserate Chicago Media Art Festival, US.
They have collaborated with institutions such as MIT Architecture Department, INDA - Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Architecture, Nikola-Lenivets Classroom, OSSA - Polish Association of Architecture Students.
Locument was founded in 2015 by Francisco Lobo and Romea Muryń.
Francisco Lobo is a Portuguese film director and cinematographer, co-founder of Locument. His projects span from documentary, fiction and theatre.
With Locument he premiered the documentary The Sky Commodified at the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival, filmed in the Atacama Desert, Chile, produced in partnership with the architecture department of MIT, Boston. In the same year, the music video Mesa para dois no Carpa won the best music video award in ‘Porto 7’ and ‘Curtas Vila do Conde’ film festivals. In 2021, the short film Feroz (directed by Nina Amat) was nominated for best photography at the AIP as well as the Gaudi awards.
In 2024 the short film Strata Incognita (directed by Locument + Grandeza Studio), integrated the Spanish pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, was screened in several international film festivals and is now part of the permanent collection of the Museu del Disseny, Barcelona.
Romea Muryń is a Polish architect and urban planner. After receiving her master’s degree from the West Pomeranian University of Technology and her bachelor’s degree from Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, she worked for 8 years as an architect in leading design practices —JDS, COBE, REX, BIG and OMA. Romea also successfully completed the postgraduate programme 'Hybrid Urbanism' at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design and worked as a leading architect and urban strategist at KB Strelka in Moscow, Russia, taking part in the projects 'My Street' large-scale urban renovation program and, 'Key Public Spaces: Improvement in 40 Cities of Russia'. Romea was an adjunct Professor at INDA International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. In addition to design and academic practice, Romea was a senior mentor at the 'Integrated Spatial Planning for Amalgamated Hromadas' and her work was representing Ukraine at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Currently, she is the Program Director of 'Creating Homes for Tomorrow' at CANactions School.
Faculty of Architecture - Brno University of Technology
INDA
CANactions
MIT Architecture Department
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
SIYUM 'Sensible City
Moscow Urban Forum 2017
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