First Trailer for ‘Architecton’ Doc Film – A Meditation on Architecture
by Alex Billington
January 21, 2025
Source: YouTube
“Architecture is just a way to think about how we live.” Madman Films from Australia has unveiled the first official trailer for a documentary film titled Architecton, the latest film 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 sometime later in 2025. 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 & 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 and 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? A fascinating film, for sure, but having seen it I feel like it doesn’t really dig deep enough… Take a look below.
Here’s the first international trailer (+ poster) for Victor Kossakovsky’s doc Architecton, from YouTube:
From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction – and offer hope for survival and a way forward. Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023. Architecton is directed by acclaimed Russian doc filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky, director of the doc films Svyato, Demonstration, Aquarela, and Gunda previously. Produced by Heino Deckert. This initially premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival last year, and it also played at London Film Festival and AFI Fest. Madman Films will release Architecton in Australia and A24 will release it in the US – but no final 2025 date has been set yet. Stay tuned for updates.
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Article by:Source: Alex Billington
