After leaving the Sydney Opera House project, Jørn Utzon built Can Lis in 1972—a home for his family on Mallorca. More than a house, it was an architectural experiment: a reimagining of Mallorcan traditions, a dialogue with local stone, a surrender to the landscape. Embedded in cliffs above the sea, every opening frames light and view like a director guiding a camera.
Today, the Utzon Foundation preserves Can Lis—architects reside there in summer, while the Danish Arts Council hosts residencies for seven months a year. But this film explores something deeper: how the space alters our perception of time and movement. Over a single day, interviews, archival fragments, and choreography merge into an unconventional architectural document.
Just as Utzon designed Can Lis—not with blueprints, but through full-scale models and improvisation with local builders—this film doesn’t just document. It inhabits.