Architecton

Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS

Tel: 01392 667080

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Victor Kossakovsky | Germany, France / 2024 / 98 mins / U
English, Italian with English subtitles

Victor Kossakovsky’s visually stunning film takes audiences on an extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete, and its ancestor stone. He raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?

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. Centring on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, Kossakovsky uses the perfect circle of stones in De Lucchi’s garden to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations, capturing breathtaking imagery, from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60 to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023.

Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off and repurposed. Through Kossakovsky’s lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits the urgent question: How do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?

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Architecton (10 Jan 2025)
DayTimes
Friday15:50 - 17:28
Architecton (11 Jan 2025)
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Saturday10:55 - 12:33
15:55 - 17:33
Architecton (13 Jan 2025)
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Monday18:00 - 19:38
Architecton (14 Jan 2025)
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Tuesday15:30 - 17:08
20:30 - 22:08
Architecton (15 Jan 2025)
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Wednesday18:00 - 19:38
Architecton (16 Jan 2025)
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Thursday15:30 - 17:08

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