{"id":609372,"date":"2024-02-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-victor-kossakovskys-epic-ode-to-stone\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:00:00","slug":"watch-victor-kossakovskys-epic-ode-to-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-victor-kossakovskys-epic-ode-to-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Victor Kossakovsky&#8217;s Epic Ode to Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2adfa3acd0b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2adfa3acd0b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-victor-kossakovskys-epic-ode-to-stone\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Victor_Kossakovskys_Epic_Ode_to_Stone%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Victor Kossakovsky&#8217;s Epic Ode to Stone&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-victor-kossakovskys-epic-ode-to-stone\/#%E2%80%9CVictor_Kossakovskys_Epic_Ode_to_Stone%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Victor Kossakovsky&#8217;s Epic Ode to Stone&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Victor_Kossakovskys_Epic_Ode_to_Stone%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Victor Kossakovsky&#8217;s Epic Ode to Stone&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CVictor_Kossakovskys_Epic_Ode_to_Stone%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Victor Kossakovsky&#8217;s Epic Ode to Stone&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cWe need a new idea of beauty,\u201d says Michele De Lucchi, the Italian architect who talks us through certain stretches of \u201cArchitecton,\u201d a singularly imposing and sonorous new documentary from Russian non-fiction auteur Victor Kossakovsky. His argument is that the earth can no longer sustain the kind of hefty architectural grandeur, built from the fabric of the Earth itself, that we\u2019ve asthetically prized for centuries, and nor can the cycle of more disposable concrete construction continue without devastating environmental impact. It\u2019s a sound point, even as Kossakovsky\u2019s film trades in entirely classic ideas of beauty to jaw-dropping effect. Whether gazing in rapt widescreen across wondrous ancient structures, ruined recent cityscapes or the oceanic shift and shake of a stone quarry in action, this is blatantly dazzling, epic-scale filmmaking that nonetheless invites viewers to consider the implications of our awe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What is it about man-made landmarks that moves us: the very effort of their creation, or the way they reshape the world im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely around them? Should architecture seek first to beautify its site or to efficiently serve its inhabitants, and which of those objectives is more ecologically ideal? These are big, knotty questions, and \u201cArchitecton\u201d \u2014 wordless outside of De Lucchi\u2019s occasional narration \u2014 doesn\u2019t impose any answers on its audience. Instead, Kossakovsky gives us ample space to absorb his repeatedly stunning images at a gradual, mesmeric pace, and to sit with our response to them as initial startlement unfolds into more lateral thought. It should go without saying that this A24-produced doc, premiering in Berlin\u2019s main competition, is not suited to laptop screens. Potential distributors would do well to position it as unusual event viewing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In feeling and form, this is closer to 2018\u2019s \u201cAquarela\u201d \u2014 Kossakovsky\u2019s similarly spectacular sensory essay on water in its panoply of earthly forms \u2014 than it is to his last, Neon-backed feature \u201cGunda,\u201d a more intimate, nominally more narrative-based study of a pig\u2019s maternal journey on a Norwegian farmyard. (Kossakovsky, meanwhile, considers \u201cArchitecton\u201d the concluding third of a trilogy with \u201cAquarela\u201d and his 2011 antipodal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ogue \u201c\u00a1Vivan las Antipodas!\u201d) The throughline between all these works, however, is a concern with man\u2019s disruptions of the natural world for his own purposes, influencing not only surrounding ecosystems but subsequent generations of his own kind. \u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t just design buildings,\u201d De Lucchi observes as he reflects on a current construction industry in flux. \u201cWe design the behavior of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Those designs can be fragile, however, as shown in the film\u2019s haunting opening images of Ukranian apartment blocks torn craggily open by Russian bombing, the camera tracking down a cross-section of kitchens now exposed to the elements, depopulated and turned inside out: an efficient, communal design for life that couldn\u2019t withstand other men\u2019s more selfish impositions on the landscape. Elsewhere, we fly over high-rises in Turkey riven not by human forces but the 2023 earthquakes. The demolition is, either way, devastating and premature, but these buildings, squarely unadorned and unlovely, were never meant to last forever \u2014 De Lucchi estimates the average lifespan of such modern concrete structures at just 40 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In pointed contrast, we cut to the ancient ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, where the architect gazes upon a pair of stone megaliths so vast, so positively uncanny in their scale and the precision of their shaping, that they hardly seem man-made, as if lowered on the land by a divine entity for our eternal astonishment. They literally couldn\u2019t be made or moved today, and yet they were. As his camera solemnly surveys them, Kossakovsky invites us to wonder what we\u2019ve lost in our inability to forge such monuments, or if the land has gained something back. For aesthetic classicists of the \u201cthey don\u2019t make \u2019em like they used to\u201d persuasion, \u201cArchitecton\u201d feeds such ideas to a point, before tacitly underlining the hubris of such long-gone architects. Should we ever have made \u2019em like that at all?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The stone work of the 21st century is smaller and more processed, as huge reserves of natural rock are tamed and chipped by man and machinery into industralized quarries of daunting, many-tiered proportions. But Kossakovsky finds a kind of otherworldly spectacle in these too. The film\u2019s most hypnotic sequences, luxuriating over several minutes of screen time, observe in painstaking slow-motion the fall and flow of stone following calculated explosions, revealed \u2014 via Kossakovsky\u2019s own crisp, elegant cuts \u2014 in ever wider shot until the mineral tumble takes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance of water in frothy, turbulent motion. The difference is that this roiling of the elements is choreographed by humans taking ownership of the environment, rather like the fir trees felled in woodland adjacent to the quarry. But we can still marvel at this terrible control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Other passages of the film think smaller: There\u2019s a witty, recurring observation of a modest domestic project by De Lucchi, as he recruits a team of bemused laborers to lay out a large, stone-edged circle in the rambling gardens of his Italian home. It scarcely counts as architecture, but the intention behind it is high-minded: No man will enter the grassy interior of the circle, he dictates, as overgrowing nature and his snuffling dogs are permitted to colonize this hitherto domestic space as they will. The architect admits to feeling some shame over the transient concrete structures he has imposed on already overcrowded cityscapes, and aims to do some penance by carving out such unobstructed negative spaces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But there\u2019s an inescapable irony in man having to build the unbuilt, in having to dictate what designated areas the earth can take back. There is no escaping our own mastery, our own determination of what is beautiful and useful. A man-made work that is very much both of those things, \u201cArchitecton\u201d frustratedly awaits a new world order, or at least a new blueprint. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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