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 ...

A nearly wordless meditation on the building blocks of civilization — stone and concrete — Viktor Kossakovsky's documentary Architecton is a dazzling sensory overload. Some documentaries are filled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. With ...

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 ...

Some documentaries are filled with talking heads who explain things. Others show evidence and lay out an argument. But the new movie "Architecton" takes a different approach. It is a nearly wordless ...