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, examines the materials of architecture and the permanence or impermanence of buildings and the societies for which they were constructed. A24 will release Architecton on August 1 in over a hundred theaters. Watch the trailer above.

The Berlin Film Festival, where Architecton premiered in 2024, wrote of the film, “Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilizations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destructi

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