Architecton

Directed by Victor Kossakovsky
Germany
2024
98 mins

Synopsis

Award-winning filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky’s striking follow-up to Gunda focuses on the built environment and its shift from rock to concrete. Selected Berlinale 2024.

This essay-like film features some of the most dramatic footage you’re likely to see this Festival, as the camera swoops through ruined buildings and streams of rock tumble slow-mo down the screen. As the dust clears and the camera retreats, you’re left to contemplate the nature of our relationship with building materials old and new. Alongside these ravishing images, we meet Italian architect and theorist Michele De Lucchi as he supervises the construction of a stone circle in his rain-swept garden. Another fascinating, immersive film in Russian director Kossakovsky’s impressive canon (¡Vivan Las Antipodas!, SFF 2012).

Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.

You donu2019t watch a Kossakovsky movie as much as you take it in with eyes wide open, immersing yourself in images and associations that present everyday phenomena in a whole new way
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

Tickets

Thu 6 June 2024, 8:15am
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3
Assisted ListeningWheelchair
Sun 9 June 2024, 8:15am
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 3
Assisted ListeningWheelchair
Fri 14 June 2024, 10:15am
Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1
Assisted ListeningWheelchair
  • Year
    2024
  • Country
    Germany, France, USA
  • Language
    In Italian and English with English subtitles
  • Director
    Victor Kossakovsky
  • Producer
    Heino Deckert
  • Screenwriter
    Victor Kossakovsky
  • Cinematographer
    Ben Bernhard
  • Editor
    Ainara Vera, Viktor Kossakovsky
  • Genre
    Documentary, Environmental, Science & Technology, Experimental
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    Australian Distributor: Madman Entertainment
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