{"id":1891,"date":"2015-08-16T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T12:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archipress.org\/?page_id=1891"},"modified":"2015-08-16T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T12:18:33","slug":"nathaniel-kahn-my-architect-a-sons-journey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archipress.org\/?page_id=1891","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Kahn, My Architect. A Son’s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathaniel Kahn, My Architect. A Son’s Journey<\/em>, USA, 2004.
\nDirector Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
\nCast: Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Frank O. Gehry<\/p>\n

\"Nathaniel<\/p>\n

My Architect is a tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness \u2014 in which the illegitimate son of a legendary artist undertakes a five year, worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father. Louis I. Kahn, who died in 1974, is considered by many architectural historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the twentieth century. A Jewish immigrant who overcame poverty and the effects of a devastating childhood accident, Kahn created a handful of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings \u2014 geometric compositions of brick, concrete and light \u2014 which, in the words of one critic, \u201cchange your life.\u201d While Kahn\u2019s artistic legacy was an uncompromising search for truth and clarity, his personal life was filled with secrets and chaos: He died, bankrupt and unidentified, in the men\u2019s room in Penn Station, New York, leaving behind three families \u2014 one with his wife of many years and two with women with whom he\u2019d had long-term affairs. In My Architect, the child of one of these extra-marital relationships, Kahn\u2019s only son Nathaniel, sets out on an epic journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious, contradictory man. Bookmark this picture! The riveting narrative leads us from the subterranean corridors of Penn Station to the roiling streets of Bangladesh (where Kahn built the astonishing Capital), and from the coast of New England to the inner sanctums of Jerusalem politics. Along the way, we encounter a series of characters that are by turns fascinating,hilarious, adoring and critical: from the cabbies who drove Kahn around his native Philadelphia, to former lovers and clients, to the rarified heights of the world\u2019s most celebrated architects \u2014 Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei and Philip Johnson among them.<\/p>\n

In My Architect, the filmmaker reveals the haunting beauty of his father\u2019s monumental creations and takes us deep within his own divided family, uncovering a world of prejudice, intrigue and the myths that haunt parents and children. In a documentary with the emotional impact of a dramatic feature film (including an original orchestral score), Nathaniel\u2019s personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself.<\/p>\n

My Architect, 116mn
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