Maillart's Bridges
MovieTitle | Maillarts Brücken |
User score | 4.8 |
Release date | Feb 9, 2001 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Heinz Emigholz |
Production country | Germany |
Production companies | Pym Film, FilmFörderung Hamburg, WDR |
Run time | 24 min. |
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.