Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky’s new documentary began with a simple question: “What if I film something that is not alive and not moving?” The answer led him to rocks. Architecton, then, features an ...

The latest documentary from Victor Kossakovsky premiered in competition at the Berlinale and will be released stateside by A24. By Jordan Mintzer At a time when movies are made to be watched on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A civilization’s architecture tells you a lot about its values. Theocracies pour their resources into lavish cathedrals, dictators ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concrete, like most material, is taken for granted. Just look at the quiet beauty of the gray stone slabs as captured in Victor ...

Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.” A ...

Viktor Kossakovsky’s films are such that you want to call him a “documentary artist.” Architecton (now streaming on HBO Max) is his latest, a meditation on creation and destruction told via long, ...

The trailer for Victor Kossakovsky’s stunning new documentary Architecton has racked up 160,000 views in a day – very impressive for a nonfiction film. The feature, built of stone and concrete, ...

Following his 2020 farm pig portrait 'Gunda' and his 2018 ode to water 'Aquarela,' the Russian docmaker offers another ravishing examination of the tension between human nature and nature itself. In ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Russian documentarist Victor Kossakovsky has worked on the very largest scales, and some of the smallest. In his intimate ...

A documentary about concrete is as gorgeous as it is grave. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. See more of ...

It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...

The "Gunda" director debuted the feature at the 2024 Berlinale. “Gunda” director Kossakovsky investigates the effects of concrete on the environment, especially since the material cannot be recycled.