From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction – and offer hope for survival and a way forward. Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60, to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023. Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off and repurposed anew. Through Kossakovsky’s inquisitive lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits the urgent question: How do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?
熙攘喧嚣的大都会里,供职于某银行的独身女子赵京敏过着朝九晚五的生活,独自穿梭在城市的街头巷尾。这一晚,京敏下班回到家,发现家门的密码锁盖子被人打开。进屋后不久,她突然听到门口传来按密码锁的声音,更有人试图扭开门把手。虽然没有看到任何人,但恐慌的京敏还是选择报警,然而警方却以未发生侵入和伤害行为而拒绝进一步调查。夜渐渐深了,在极不正常的深度睡眠中,似乎有什么人坦然自若地走入京敏的房间,紧紧抱着这个女孩入睡。接下来的日子,京敏的精神状态越来越差,无理的客户更是让她倍感恐慌。 她开始变得不知所措,身边每个男人似乎都变得无比可疑,而可怕的事情终于发生……