Architecton (2024)

Directed by

Victor Kossakovsky

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, France

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

G

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film examines how societies use stone and concrete in buildings. It looks at what these materials and structures say about the values of the people who made them.

contemplativemeditativereflectiveslow-pacedvisually strikingthoughtfulsereneobservationalphilosophical

What happens

Architecton is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky about the ways that stone and concrete architecture express the values of societies. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 19 February 2024, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award. It was released on 3 October 2024 in Germany by Neue Visionen, and was released in the United States on 1 August 2025 by A24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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