Architecton U

"★★★★ – A gorgeously photographed poetic reverie" – Observer

★★★★ – Financial Times

Victor Kossakovsky’s jaw-dropping documentary offers us a god’s eye view of man’s attempt to build with and against the elements.

Told largely without narration, Kossakovsky’s camera shows construction – the churning rock at quarries shot in hallucinogenic 96 frames per second – and devastating destruction, such as the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquakes.

Our guide across this grand terrain is architect Michele De Lucchi, who offers us ideas for ways we can find new ideas of beauty – ones that speak to eternal principles while also pushing us to a new future.

For anyone who values the power of architecture, as well as epic scale filmmaking, this is a film pulled from the earth that will hold you rapt.

Screening as part of Architecture on Film, a film season in Jan and Feb inspired by the release of The Brutalist.