A civilization’s architecture tells you a lot about its values. Theocracies pour their resources into lavish cathedrals, dictators embrace harsh brutalism, and unbridled hedonism produced the Las ...
Concrete, like most material, is taken for granted. Just look at the quiet beauty of the gray stone slabs as captured in Victor Kossakovsky’s visual art installation adjacent documentary “Architecton.
It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...
The Match Factory has acquired the international rights to the Russian director Victor Kossakovsky‘s documentary “Architecton,” which world premieres in the competition section of the Berlinale. A24 ...
Some documentaries are filled with talking heads who explain things. Others show evidence and lay out an argument. But the new movie "Architecton" takes a different approach. It is a nearly wordless ...
“We need a new idea of beauty,” says Michele De Lucchi, the Italian architect who talks us through certain stretches of “Architecton,” a singularly imposing and sonorous new documentary from Russian ...
Some documentaries are filled experts on this and that explaining things. Others show evidence and lay out an argument. But the new movie "Architecton" is an almost-wordless meditation on stone and ...
If Victor Kossakovsky’s 2018 documentary Aquarela was an essay about climate change told through the medium of water, Architecton turns its attention to our planet’s shell of rock and stone, and its ...
The "Gunda" director debuted the feature at the 2024 Berlinale. “Gunda” director Kossakovsky investigates the effects of concrete on the environment, especially since the material cannot be recycled.