To celebrate 25 years of OFFF Barcelona, Territory Studio created Echoes of Creation, a poetic closing title sequence narrated by Jade de Robles. Blending voiceover, field recordings, and 3D scans of iconic artworks transformed with AI, the piece is a tribute to the city’s creative soul.With sound design by Echoic and visuals rooted in Barcelona’s legacy, it’s a dreamlike meditation on memory, transformation, and artistic evolution.
"ECHOES OF CREATION: A VISUAL POEM"
Rooted in reflection and driven by inspiration, ‘Echoes of Creation’ explores the key elements that define OFFF Barcelona, paying special attention to its 25th anniversary: 25 years of memories, inspired by the past, shaped by the city, its timeless art, and its history, such as Gaudí’s architecture and Joan Miró’s sculptures. To tell a deeper story, the titles were transformed into a visual poem written by writer and VO artist Jade de Robles.
The film has intentionally understated visuals detailing the line-up of this year’s festival, flowing gently, allowing space for reflection and for the audience to absorb a message rooted in the past. The message of the enduring power of creation, the inspiration we draw from it, and the role of OFFF as a catalyst for future works that, one day, may also stand the test of time.
To capture the essence of the city of Barcelona, the Territory team photographed a curated selection of iconic and timeless artworks, and using an image-to-mesh AI model, then extracted 3D versions of those elements and incorporated them into the scenes using Cinema 4D. Sound design team at Echoic followed the same philosophy. Once they identified the locations of these artworks, they travelled to Barcelona to capture ambient sounds on-site. These recordings were then transformed into synthesized instruments, forming the foundation of the audio piece, layered with the poem’s VoiceOver.
Marti Romances, Co-Founder at Territory Studio, San Francisco said: “The Territory team was determined to ensure these Titles could only belong to OFFF Barcelona. We’ve often seen festival titles that feel disconnected from their event or location, something we wanted to avoid entirely. That’s why we began by exploring the key elements that define OFFF Barcelona, with special attention to its 25th anniversary.”
Echoes of Creation – by Jade de Robles
Twenty-five years. Three hundred months. A blip in the system. A speck of dust.
Today the past presses with the present. Listen —
the echoes of thinkers still hum in the stone,
their whispers tremble in every tile of the city.
Feel the drink, the laugh, the life they lived,
and how they watch as we spill the same stories, again and again.
We are but a series of beliefs we collect through time —
memories, thoughts, and learnings coming together right now
to gather, to weather the storm.
Change cracks our foundation, demands radical cooperation.
A new era of thinking. And so we ask: why? why?
And how do we keep going and growing,
in these worlds that we burn and we build,
and we burn, and we build — one thought at a time.
We’re not alone. We never are.
This city, this place — witness to the beautiful atrocities
that built the cathedrals that pierce the sky, towering over us tonight.
The art, the rules, the chaos we carve into history
form the fabric of our frequency.
Nothing acts on its own.
Everything is woven into every fibre of our being.
It’s a constant conversation between what is and what isn’t.
Lost lovers find themselves, like we find meaning in our older selves.
Experiences flow through us — we’re instrumentalists in a larger symphony.
Creation needs reflection. Transformation needs collaboration and patience.
Innovation can’t be found if we don’t look back.
Which is why we’re here: to figure out, for just a brief moment,
what the future of art, design, and technology could look like —
a trifecta of sorts. A clear vision. A puzzle to solve.
Twenty-five years. A quarter of a century.
But also a flicker in the galaxy.
How rare, how fleeting, how extraordinary — to be alive,
to witness the unfolding of this point in time
and to realise that because of you and I,
and every tile that we’ve walked on,
our story comes alive.
