MY ARCHITECT: A SON'S JOURNEY
Special Features: New DCP Restoration; 20th Anniversary
Louis Kahn, who in 1974 died bankrupt and alone in New York City's Pennsylvania Station, is considered by many architectural historians to be the most important architect of the second half of the 20th century. He left behind a brilliant legacy of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings — geometric compositions of brick, concrete and light, that in the words of the L.A. Times "change your life." Kahn's dramatic death laid bare a complex personal life of secrets and broken promises: he led not a double, but a triple life. In addition to his wife and daughter, there were two children born to two different women with whom he maintained long-term relationships. In this Academy Award®-nominated documentary, one of these children, Kahn's only son, Nathaniel, sets out on a journey to reconcile his father's life and work. I. M. Pei, Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson speak movingly of Kahn's work (the Salk Institute, the Exeter Library, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Capital Complex of Bangladesh) and the women and children in his life shed light on this secretive, peripatetic man — a dynamo who gave selflessly to his art, but whose relationships were left on the drawing board, only to find completion in this wonderful film. (Note adapted from Abramorama.) DIR/SCR/PROD Nathaniel Kahn; PROD Susan Rose Behr. U.S., 2003, color, 110 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, June 23, 2023
Genre: Documentary - biography
