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My Architect: A Sons JourneyIn this portrait of the artist as an absent father, the illegitimate son of architectural genius, Louis Kahn, sets out to document the life of a parent he never really knew. Illuminating and deeply touching, this is one family gathering that makes the Osbournes look well balanced.
American architect, Louis Kahn didn’t let his marriage and daughter get in the way of producing two illegitimate children with two different mothers. A workaholic with a debt ridden practice, he rarely had time for any of them. Despite his extended family, in a twist that has you mouthing ‘he had it coming’, he died alone of a heart attack in a train station toilet. Only a child when his heavily absent father departed, Nathaniel Kahn embarks on a cross continent search from Pennsylvania to Bangladesh in a desperate attempt to get under the skin of the father he only knew from fleeting visits. Lost relations, colleagues, lovers and siblings are called upon to shed light on the man, along with the magnificent buildings he created.
Now in his thirties, Nathaniel is clearly deeply scarred by life without his father. Having raised him to an almost divine status through memory, his documentary serves to present dad as monster as well as a God. But as his son goes back to the beginning, you discover the method in the man’s madness. Growing up with
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