A few lucky folks who came to see and vote on storyboard artist Arna Selznick’s The Most Magnificent Thing when this STEM themed film screened during the Short Film Slam were in for an extra treat! 

Checking out one of the structures in the gym at CANstruction 2019. Participating teams included USA Architects, JKRP, Turner Construction and more. You had to be there to see it.The Madlab Post studio was in its second year of operation while a design and build contest called CANstruction was happening in the gym at Bok. 

Every year, teams of architects, engineers, contractors and designers get together to build life-size structures made out of canned food.

Following a public exhibit, the cans used for these structures are donated to local hunger relief organization, Philabundance.  

Based on Ashley Spires’ best-selling book of the same name, The Most Magnificent Thing is an animated short starring Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg, Alison Pil (Vice; American Horror Story) and Lilly Barlam (The Handmaid's Tale).

The film is about the perseverance and creativity of an architect’s daughter who receives her very own tool box, and then embarks on a quest to build a masterpiece for her pet pug. 

Have YOU seen The Most Magnificent Thing? 

What’s YOUR CANstruction pick.... Beehive or Butterflies? 

When was the last time YOU built something from the ground up? How did it turn out?