Architecton (U)

The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture. Monumental in scale and vision and largely without narration, it’s an absorbing journey that takes us from tomb-like Ukrainian cities through mind-boggling modern quarrying and construction methods to an ancient stone monolith in Lebanon. With architect Michele De Lucchi as our occasional guide, it manages to ask searching questions about our short-sighted use of natural resources: how do we build, and how can we build better – before it’s too late?