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kobvindex_INT0002541
Format:
1 DVD video (116 minutes) :
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sound (Dolby SR) ; colour ;
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1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages).
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12 cm ; image format : 4:3. +
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "My Architect: A Son's Journey is a 2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974), by his son Nathaniel Kahn, detailing the architect's extraordinary career and his familial legacy after his death in 1974. [...] The film features interviews with renowned architects, including Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, Shamsul Wares, I.M. Pei, Moshe Safdie and Anne Tyng. Throughout the film, Kahn visits all of his father's buildings including The Yale Center for British Art, The Salk Institute, Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. The film explores Kahn's family life which involved his fathering children by three different partners, each of whom was kept in the dark about the existence of his other families. Reviewing the film in Chicago Reader, David Schwartz wrote: 'This absorbing, beautiful documentary is the first-person odyssey of Nathaniel Kahn, son of legendary architect Louis Kahn by one of his longtime mistresses. Despite his accomplishments, Kahn Sr. died a penniless loner in Penn Station in 1974, leaving behind three families, none of them aware of the others' existence. Seeking to unravel his father's mysterious personal life, Nathaniel combines rare personal footage and compelling interviews with the elder Kahn's colleagues, friends, and families.'"
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "My Architect is filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn's intimate exploration of his father's life. Louis Kahn, the renowned architect, was found dead in Penn Station in 1974. He died in massive debt. His obituary in The New York Times mentioned Kahn's importance to modern architecture, but did not mention that he had a son. As it turned out, very few people knew that Louis Kahn led a kind of double life. He had a wife and daughter, but he also had two other children by two mistresses. Nathaniel traces his father's past, from his childhood to his prominence in the world of architecture. He interviews Louis' peers, including Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, and I.M. Pei. He also interviews his own mother and his two half sisters. The filmmaker tries to reconcile his father's prestige with his financial ruin, and his passion for his work with his insensitive treatment of the women in his life and the children he fathered. He also travels the globe examining his father's legacy -- the buildings he designed throughout the world. My Architect was shown at New Directors/New Films in 2003."
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MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Der 1974 verstorbene Louis I. Kahn wird als einer der wichtigsten Architekten der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts angesehen. Während Kahns künstlerisches Erbe eine kompromisslose Such nach Wahrheit und Klarheit ist, war sein privates Leben voller Geheimnisse und Chaos. Mit seinem mysteriösen Tod auf der Herrentoilette der New Yorker Penn Station hinterließ er drei Familien. In einer Reise um die Welt nimmt uns Nathaniel Kahn, der illegitime Sohn, mit zu den bekannten Architekten unserer Zeit, gewährt tiefe Einblicke in seine Familie und enthüllt die faszinierende Schönheit der Gebäude seines Vaters. Ein Film, der als persönliche Geschichte beginnt und schließlich zu einer universellen Suche nach Identität, Kunstverständnis und dem Leben an sich wird." -- "Louis I Kahn, who died in 1974, is regarded as one of the most important architects of the second half of the 20th century. While Kahn's artistic heritage is an uncompromising quest for truth and clarity, his private life was full of secrets and chaos. With his mysterious death in the men's room of New York's Penn Station, he left three families behind. In a journey around the world, Nathaniel Kahn, the illegitimate son, takes us to the well-known architects of our time, providing deep insights into his family and revealing the fascinating beauty of his father's buildings. A film that begins as a personal story and finally becomes a universal search for identity, understanding of art and life itself."
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BONUS MATERIAL: trailer, conversation with Nathaniel Kahn, additional scenes and rare historical footage with Louis Kahn.
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GENERAL NOTE: booklet includes text by Hansjörg Göritz (Architect, Hannover), Louis I. Kahn's biography, Nathaniel Kahn's biography.
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CHAPTERS: 1 Beginnings... -- 2 Looking in Philadelphia -- 3 Heading West -- 4 The immigrant -- 5 Dreams of a better city -- 6 Going to sea -- 7 The truth about the bastard -- 8 The nomad -- 9 Family matters -- 10 The end of the journey -- 11 Credits.
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LANGUAGE NOTE: English original with subtitles in German and English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Documentary films
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