Feb 09, 2001
24 min
Full-HD

Maillart's Bridges (2001)

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a traditional journalistic structure, director Heinz Emigholz's spellbinding film reads more like ethereal visual poetry, allowing the beauty of Maillart's work to speak for itself.

Category

Documentary

Country

Germany

Companies

Pym Film FilmFörderung Hamburg WDR

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