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What will the people of the next civilization find of our time? Victor Kossakovsky poses this question in his cinema documentary 'Architecton' (2024) and condenses possible answers to it into an intense, visually simply overwhelming cinematic experience that allows us to feel the fragile structures of the world up close. A magnificent documentary of hypnotic power about the dream of sustainable architecture and the search for a new understanding of beauty that can show us a way out of this labyrinth of concrete.
VThe architect Michele De Lucchi is an idealist in his profession, his buildings manifest an unbreakable belief in the good in people. He is now forced to design artless skyscrapers. Not only is the concrete architecture ugly and polluting, its average lifespan is no more than 40 years. In 'Architecton', Russian documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky ('Gunda') portrays a disillusioned representative of our present day and his attempt to defy man's ruthless war against nature. In overwhelming shots of nature, we follow the life cycle of stones, which begins in nature and ends in the garbage dump. While modern buildings collapse in wars and natural disasters, ancient ruins in the most remote areas of the world remind us of a stability and aesthetics of life that seems lost. For architecture is not just the design of buildings - it is a spatial art that determines the scope of our actions, our politics, our being...
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- Friday, May 2, 2025 20:00 - 21:30 clock
Gessin 7b
17139 Gessin
