An epic, intimate and poetic reflection on the fate of architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the distant past reveal our destruction, yet offer hope for survival and a way forward. Meditative passages depicting Italian architect Michele De Lucchi’s landscape design are interspersed with breathtaking shots of blasting in a quarry. Using shots of the ruins of a Ukrainian settlement or the Baalbek temple in Lebanon, built before AD, director Victor Kossakovsky reflects on the rise and fall of civilizations and the role architecture plays in all of this. Stone monoliths of fascinating proportions are compared with contemporary buildings that in a short time turn into piles of concrete rubble in landfills. The folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature leads the creators to ask the urgent question: how do we build and how can we build better before it is too late?
| Praha – Kino Světozor – Great Hall | Sat 28/09 | 20:30 | 160 CZK |
