Maillart's Bridges

Maillart's Bridges

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 9, 2001

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

48%

Original Title

Maillarts Brücken

Production Companies

Pym Film, FilmFörderung Hamburg, WDR

Director

Heinz Emigholz

Description

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.