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Film Description
Aka My Architect, A Son's Journey. The illegitimate son of legendary architect Louis B. Kahn undertakes a 5 year, worldwide exploration in order to understand his dead father, whose artistic legacy was an uncompromising search for truth and clarity, but whose private life was filled with secrets and chaos.
Film Information
| Director | Nathaniel Kahn | ||||
| Genre | Documentary
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| Country | USA | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 2003 |
DVD Extras
Director Q & A; UK exclusive director interview; Deleted scenes; Gallery with commentary; Film notes.
Technical Details
| Certificate | PG | Length | 113 mins | Label | TARTN | ||
| Cat No | TVD3520 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.85:1 Anamorphic widescreen | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by David Gilliam on 1st March 2005
Famous for his modernism-with-a-human-face, Louis Kahn is considered by many to have been the most influential architect of the second half of the twentieth century. In this fascinating documentary his illegitimate son, Nathaniel seeks to discover what made his famous father tick, both as a man and an architect. Louis was clearly a man who inspired love. When he died, bankrupt and unidentified in the men’s room at Penn Station, he left behind three families – one with his wife of forty years and two with colleagues with whom he’d had long-term affairs – all of whom lived within a few miles of each other.
As an architect he was determined to leave a permanent mark on the world. He was 50 before he found a style he could call his own, but in the last twenty years of his life he built a handful of buildings that changed the course of architecture. He preferred simple materials – brick and concrete – but he worked them with astonishing facility, creating spaces that are both highly functional and spiritually uplifting. He was obsessed with natural light, which proves a great boon to Nathaniel who is able to shoot some beautiful images that dramatically reveal how the play of light can change these spaces.
This is a far warmer, much more engaging documentary than I expected. Held together by a lovely score, it builds up a picture of a mysterious man through good use of archive material and telling interviews, but rightly gives pride of place to his extraordinary buildings. If like me you’d never heard of Louis Kahn, nor seen any of his buildings, by the end you’ll come to understand his remarkable achievements.
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