Architecton (U)

★★★ An immersive and imposing meditation on concrete and stone, Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary offers awesome drone-shot sequences of wrecked and ruined buildings, but could have been constructed more solidly. ~ The Guardian.

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The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda and Aquarela).

Architecton is 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.

Through Kossakovsky’s lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits two urgent questions: how do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?

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★★★★ A serious philosophical and environmental inquiry at work here, regarding our future and the urgent need to reinvent the way we make the spaces we inhabit. ~ Financial Times.

★★★ A little bit of screensaver energy to the visuals, but it taps into the short-order nature of modern construction. ~ Little White Lies.