SCREENINGS AT THE SHOE FACTORY

Wednesday 14 March 2012

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str / 8.30pm

Entrance: Free


Screening: My Architect
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Duration: 116’
Language: English
“A warm, richly suggestive, deeply human film”. The Observer

He was one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. A mystic, an artist, a man of the world. Everyone knew Louis I. Kahn...except his son. A riveting tale of love, art, betrayal and forgiveness – in which the illegitimate son of the legendary architect undertakes a worldwide exploration to discover and understand his father's and the personal choices he made.

Louis I. Kahn is considered by many historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the 20th 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 – geometric compositions of brick, concrete and light.

While Kahn's artistic legacy was a search for truth and clarity, his personal life was secretive and chaotic. His mysterious death in a train station men's room left behind three families – one with his wife and two with women with whom he had long-term affairs. The child of one of these extra-marital relationships, Kahn's only son Nathaniel, sets out on a journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious man. Revealing the haunting beauty of his father's monumental, Nathaniel's personal journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art and ultimately, of life itself.