Quadro

The video Quadro (Italian for square, picture, frame) is a film portrait of a monumental 1960s apartment block built in the Italian coastal city of Trieste. Resembling a fortress, this imposing structure, laid out in the shape of a square, floats on top of a hill overlooking the city. This edifice embodies its period’s ideas of a social utopia in a bold concrete structure without any scale. Its material and structure serve as elements which unite the filmic interpretation. The rhythm of the editing corresponds to the architectural body’s meter. Constructed space is manifested in filmic time.