Warehouse is a meditative ethnographic short film exploring the sensory landscape of a carpenter’s workshop.

Filmed within a warehouse inhabited by tools, materials, gestures, and rhythms of labour, the work attends to the often-overlooked relationships between people, objects, and space. Wood, metal, dust, and machinery emerge not merely as elements of production but as active presences, each carrying its own texture, resonance, and temporal rhythm.

Without dialogue, Warehouse unfolds through close observation and attentive listening. Combining detailed imagery with an immersive soundscape, the film invites viewers into a sensory encounter with the material world and the quiet poetics of everyday labour.

Production Context

Warehouse was developed within Optakus, a multi-sited artistic research laboratory initiated by S. Buse Yıldırım, Constantinos Diamantis, Malwa Grabowska, and Lillian Dam Bracia. Bringing together experimental and ethnographic approaches to filmmaking, the collective explored the sensory and spatial possibilities of sound and image through collaborative field-based practices.

CREDITS:

with

Emmanuel Gonzalez

Nanook Hinze

Woodboom space

special thanks 

Woodboom GmbH

Easy Does It GmbH

Concept & Development

Lilian Dam Bracia 

Constantinos Diamantis 

Malwa Grabowska 

S.Buse Yildirim

Project Consultancy

Mark Dölling 

Eva Knopf

Grzegorz Muskala

Cinematography -  Editing - Sound Concept

Malwa Grabowska  

Sound Concept - Mood Director -  Production & Post-production Management 

Constantinos Diamantis

Line Producer - Associate Producer

Lilian Dam Bracia

Sound Recording - Producer

S.Buse Yildirim

Sound Design & Mixing

John Paneris

Additional Sound Design & Mixing
Britte van Meurs

Color Grading

Aggelos Mantzios

MetaPost Coordinator 

Iro Adrakta

Post Production Facility

MetaPost

Production

Freie Universitaet Berlin

MA Visual & Media Anthropology

Optakus Multi-sited Lab

2018

   Runtime: 8 min

   Format: Full HD

        Language: No dialogue