Filmvorführung: Architecton
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A magnificent documentary film of hypnotic power about the dream of sustainable architecture and the search for a new understanding of beauty that can show us a way out of this labyrinth of concrete.
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The architect Michele De Lucchi is an idealist in his profession - in his buildings he manifests an unbreakable belief in the good in people. He is now forced to design artless skyscrapers. The architecture cast in concrete is not only ugly and polluting. Their average lifespan is also no more than 40 years.
In ARCHITECTON, Russian documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky ("Gunda") portrays a disillusioned representative of our present day and his attempt to defy man's ruthless war against nature. In overwhelming shots of nature, we follow the life cycle of stones, which begins in nature and ends in the rubbish dump. While modern buildings collapse in wars and natural disasters, ancient ruins in the most remote areas of the world remind us of a stability and aesthetics of life that seems lost.