plonc. Studio Films
A collection of films exploring material poetics, surface memory, and the philosophy of making. Each film is paired with a written Journal entry - a quiet dialogue between image and thought.
Facing Surfaces
In dialogue with Bruno Latour
A short film exploring how surfaces speak - how matter reaches back.
Inspired by Bruno Latour, this film explores the ontology of surfaces - what lies between matter and meaning.
plonc. Studio — Fire Memory (Journal No. 3)
(Duration: 9 min 08 sec)
Fire Memory continues plonc. Studio’s reflection on material consciousness, tracing how fire, as both origin and destroyer, writes itself into the memory of surfaces.
Filmed as a single, uninterrupted reflection - seated over a wooden table, this film explores how heat, ash, and time converge in the design process.
It’s not about inspiration. It’s about remembering what materials already know.
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From: plonc. Studio Journal No. 3
Filmed by: Noli Samson
Format: Single-take, vertical composition
“Fire remembers us.”
The Poverty of Trends
(Duration 6 min 56 sec)
Architecture once moved with time; now it moves with trend.
The Poverty of Trends is a quiet study on the erosion of authorship in design. It reflects on how imitation and repetition have replaced the discipline of craft, and asks what remains when originality becomes unfashionable.
Filmed and spoken by Noli Samson, this studio film continues plonc.’s reflection on geological authorship and the ethics of surface; a call to resist convenience and return to material truth.