The film explores the nature of weightlessness underwater, by using an otherworldly architectural form of multiple connecting staircases submerged deep at the bottom of the ocean. “The stair, a rudimentary architecture element suggestive of directionality and movement, is taken out of its usual context and transformed into an underwater folly,” explains OMA to IGNANT. The spiraling stairs create a three-dimensional structure on which marine life begins to rapidly grow: vibrant coral reef unfurls with consciousness, as jellyfish bobble nearby and an iridescent ecosystem materializes. As the film comes to a close, the final sequence portrays a vivid and thriving underwater home growing over and around the architectural structure, “the skeleton holding a new body of life,” Taylor says.
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