Architecton
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An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete, and its ancestor, stone. Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) captures astonishing images, from the ancient temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a seismic earthquake, to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations and raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?
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“A gorgeously photographed poetic reverie on the subject of stone and concrete, permanence and profligate waste.”
The Guardian
“Kossakovsky gives us ample space to absorb his repeatedly stunning images at a gradual, mesmeric pace, and to sit with our response to them as initial startlement unfolds into more lateral thought.”
Variety
“There’s much ASMR pleasure to be gleaned from the ambient long shots of machinery layering up long, perfect lines of concrete for some upcoming blight on the landscape.”
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