“When we design something, we design the behavior of people.” A24 has unveiled an official trailer for the documentary titled Architecton, the latest creation from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (of Gunda, Aquarela). This first premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival last year, and will be released in the US in art house theaters starting this August (remarkably by A24!!). An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Architecton is an epic, intimate, and very poetic meditation on architecture and how the design & construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward. Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off & repurposed anew. Through Kossakovsky’s inquisitive lens, the grandeur & folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits the urgent question: How do we build…? And how can we build better, before it’s too late? Starring legendary architect and designer Michele De Lucchi alongside several million tons of rocks. It’s a stunning film to watch, though gets a bit repetitive & redundant overall. // Continue Reading ›
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