In his latest film, Victor Kossakovsky looks at architecture as something that tells us more about the future of humanity than its past. Architecton is a meditative yet excitingly compelling audiovisual spectacle, framed by the philosophical views of Italian architect Michele De Lucchi. Is stone as a building material truly what unites the world’s nations across the continents? What is the relationship between the temple ruins at Baalbek and a prefabricated housing estate in contemporary Ukraine? Kossakovsky invites us to ponder these and other questions through observational as well as captivating and stylized documentary footage.
Marek Čermák
98 min / Color, DCP
Director Victor Kossakovsky
/ Screenplay Victor Kossakovsky
/ Dir. of Photography Ben Bernhard
/ Music Evgueni Galperine
/ Sound Alexander Dudarev
/ Editor Victor Kossakovsky, Ainara Vera
/ Producer Heino Deckert
/ Production Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
/ Coproduction Point du Jour – Les Films du Balibari
/ Sales The Match Factory
Victor Kossakovsky (1961, Saint Petersburg). Selected filmography (documentaries): Hush! (Tishe!, 2002), ¡Vivan las Antipodas! (2011), Aquarela (2018), Gunda (2020), Architecton (2024).
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