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‘Architecton’ Review: Victor Kossakovsky’s Magnetic Film Essay Reflects On Man’s Relationship With Nature – Berlin Film Festival
‘Architecton’ review: Victor Kossakovsky’s magnetic film essay reflects on man’s relationship with nature – Berlin Film Festival
It shows the poetics of ruin, but it is a cycle with diminishing returns; the debris of the Romans and Greeks still has a grandeur and majesty that is missing from the shabby detritus of the modern world, as we see in the aftermath of the earthquake that laid waste to Turkey in the summer of last year. For a time, the closest comparison is Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 masterpiece Koyaanisqatsi(the title being a native-American Hopi word meaning “Life out of balance”), and Kossakovsky uses music to similar, hypnotic effect. Such a concept isn’t all that new — it’s over 100 years since Le Corbusier declared that “a house is machine for living in” — but Kossakovsky’s fascinating, magnetic film essay does help us to reassess what we’ve lost over the centuries.
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