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Architecton

Architecton

Victor Kossakovsky
Germany, France, United States
2024
99 min
Dutch Premiere
Signed
Synopsis

Concrete is the most widely used material in the world after water, according to Viktor Kossakovsky in Architecton. This observation conceptually links this third part of his ‘A-trilogy’ to the second part, the water documentary Aquarela (2018), which was in turn the sequel to ¡Vivan las antipodas! (2011).

The connection is also made visually, with slow-motion shots in which falling boulders and stones seem to flow like rivers. Accompanied by a score by composer Evgueni Galperine, this gives the visual symphony about concrete and stone a hypnotic power.

Kossakovsky moves from the ruins of the temples of Baal to Ukrainian buildings bombed by the Russian army, from houses destroyed by earthquakes in Turkey to quarries where building materials are extracted with brute force.

His historical reflection on construction and destruction centers on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi who, in protest against the transience of modern construction and as a lesson in modesty in our relationship with nature, creates a ‘magic circle’ in his garden, where humans are forbidden to set foot.

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Credits
99 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Italian, English
Director
    Victor Kossakovsky
    Victor Kossakovsky
Production
    Heino Deckert
    Heino Deckert
Co-production
    Clara Vuillermoz,
    Estelle Robin You,
    Charlotte Hailstone,
    Charlotte Hailstone
    Clara Vuillermoz,
    Estelle Robin You,
    Charlotte Hailstone,
    Charlotte Hailstone
Cinematography
    Ben Bernhard
    Ben Bernhard
Editing
    Victor Kossakovsky,
    Ainara Vera
    Victor Kossakovsky,
    Ainara Vera
Sound
    Alexander Dudarev
    Alexander Dudarev
Music
    Evgueni Galperine
    Evgueni Galperine
World Sales
    The Match Factory
    The Match Factory
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
Screening copy
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
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