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 Director and Cinematographer. He graduated in directing at UCP - School of Arts, Porto and completed his master’s in cinematography at ESCAC, Barcelona. In the years following his graduation he worked closely with theatre companies and actors which allowed him to do personal and professional work in theatre and cinema. With projects that span from feature films, web and television series to music videos, advertisement and theatre, his approach pays equal respect to aesthetics and content. As a frequent collaborator of theatre company “A Turma” he developed video for several theatre plays and directed the experimental film ELA, which premiered at Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro. With production company Anexo82 he photographed the feature film “The Forest of Lost Souls”. Currently his work is divided between fiction, documentary, advertisement and theatre.
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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