My Architect

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Movie
German title My Architect
Original title My Architect
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Nathaniel Kahn
script Nathaniel Kahn
production Nathaniel Kahn
Susan Rose Behr
music Joseph Vitarelli
camera Robert Richman
cut Sabine Krayenbühl

My Architect is an American documentary released in 2003 . Directed by Nathaniel Kahn . Louis Kahn Project Inc. and Mediaworks Inc. produced the film.

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Along with Frank Lloyd Wright , Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn is one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. He died in March 1974 on the way back from Bangladesh in the toilet at Penn Station in New York . The film begins there.

In My Architect , Nathaniel Kahn searches for traces of the work and nature of the father who is strange to him. Lou, as he is often called in the movie, was married and had a daughter from that marriage. But he also had extramarital relationships that were not without consequences: a daughter with an architect and a son with a landscape architect, Nathaniel.

Nathaniel goes on a journey around the world. He seeks out those who knew Kahn and worked with him. He travels to the concrete, brick, and light buildings that made Lou famous. The final minutes of the almost two-hour work were created in the Capital Complex in Dhaka. The rulers of Bangladesh saw in Kahn not only the architect of their parliament building, but also the architect of their young democracy. Loius Kahn did not live to see the completion of this building or that of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad in India. He died lonely, unrecognized, and in debt.

reception

The film was shown at numerous film festivals from the spring of 2003 before it was released in cinemas in the United States on November 12, 2003. In the United States played My Architect to August 2004 about 2.74 million US dollars one.

The majority of the critics received the film well. For example, Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of February 20, 2004: “What a sad film it is and so full of the mystery of human life.” Leslie Camhi also praised the film in the Village Voice in November 2003: “ A refreshing, bittersweet testament of childlike love, mixed with pain and compassion. ” Jeffrey M. Anderson rated the film negatively in Las Vegas Weekly : “ My Architect not only takes up the usual approach, but also does it in an unappealing way transparent way. "

German critics also praised My Architect . For example, Gerwin Zohlen said in the Berliner Morgenpost of October 21, 2004 that this was an excellent film. “Nathaniel Kahn pleasantly walks the fine line between architectural fascination and biographical curiosity. He wins pictures that make you drunk with the beauty of the buildings, in which the archaic, modern, monumental and human merge. "

Awards

The film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival , as well as at the Philadelphia Film Festival and the High Falls Film Festival. At the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival , My Architect received the Audience Award for Silver Plaque and the Golden Hugo for Best Documentary .

The Directors Guild of America honored Nathaniel Kahn in the category Best Director for a Documentary . The American Cinema Editors nominated the film for Eddie as the best-edited documentary . At the Independent Spirit Awards 2004 the film was nominated for Best Documentary and for the Truer Than Fiction Award . At the 2004 Academy Awards , the film received a nomination for Best Documentary , but was defeated by Errol Morris ' The Fog of War .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Ebert
  2. ^ Leslie Camhi, Village Voice
  3. ↑ Jeffrey M. Anderson, Las Vegas Weekly ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lasvegasweekly.com
  4. ↑ Gerwin Zohlen, Berliner Morgenpost ( Memento from July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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