《My Architect: A Son's Journey/我的建筑师》上
《My Architect: A Son's Journey/我的建筑师》下
导演: Nathaniel Kahn
主演: Frank O. Gehry / Philip Johnson / Louis Kahn / I.M. Pei / Nathaniel Kahn
类型: 纪录片 / 传记
官方网站: http://www.myarchitectfilm.com/
获奖： 2003年 Philadelphia Film Festival 最佳纪录片
2003年 High Falls Film Festival 最佳纪录片
2003年 Hamptons International Film Festival 最佳纪录片
剧情
这是美国费城著名建筑师路易斯·I·康因的儿子纳撒尼尔·康恩对父亲事业和生活的回忆，路易斯生前设计了许多著名建筑，其中有沙克学院、孟加拉首都达卡的国会大厦，1974年他在潘站的浴室里由于心脏病发作而去逝，是位共认的上个世纪最有影响的建筑师之一。路易斯有着三个不同家庭的生活，他和妻子及和妻子的女儿生活在一起，同时他还有两个情人，每个情人有一个儿子，其中一个就是纳撒尼尔·康恩，当父亲去逝时，纳撒尼尔只有11岁。
该片是导演Nathaniel Kahn拍摄的一部关于他的父亲生平的纪录片。影片回忆了美国著名建筑师路易斯·I·康因的事业、爱情和家庭生活。路易斯·I·康因设计了许多知名的建筑，是当时极富影响力的建筑师。但这位建筑师却风流一生，除了妻女外还跟两个情人各生有一子，其中之一便是导演本人。
My Architect is a tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness—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 20th century. A Jewish immigrant who over came poverty and the effects of a devastating childhood accident, Kahn created a handful of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings—geometric compositions of brick, concrete and light—which, in the words of one critic, “change your life.” While Kahn’s 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’s room in Penn Station, New York, leaving behind three families—one with his wife of many years and two with women with whom he’d had long-term affairs. In My Architect, the child of one of these extra-marital relationships, Kahn’s only son Nathaniel, sets out on an epic journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious, contradictory man.
The riveting narrative leads us from the subterranean corridors of Penn Station to the roiling streets of Bangladesh (where Kahn built the astonishing National Capitol), 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’s most celebrated architects—Frank Gehry, I. M. Pei and Philip Johnson among them.
In My Architect, the filmmaker reveals the haunting beauty of his father’s 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’s personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and, ultimately, of life itself.
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