66 mins |
Rated
E Exempt
PRECEDED BY the short, Gypsum Concrete (7 min).
Crooked Lines Of Beauty takes us on a journey with filmmaker Sven Blume as he retraces the steps of his late grandfather, architect Carl Nyrén. As a child, Blume found his grandfather’s role difficult to grasp but years later, he began to develop a curiosity about Nyrén’s legacy. He decides to visits many of his buildings, in the hope of learning something about the architect beyond what was captured on home video recordings. Deeply personal and touching, Crooked Lines Of Beauty is a poetic odyssey that reminds of us of the humanity required to realise architecture worth preserving.
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PRECEDED BY the short, Gypsum Concrete (7 min).
Crooked Lines Of Beauty takes us on a journey with filmmaker Sven Blume as he retraces the steps of his late grandfather, architect Carl Nyrén. As a child, Blume found his grandfather’s role difficult to grasp but years later, he began to develop a curiosity about Nyrén’s legacy. He decides to visits many of his buildings, in the hope of learning something about the architect beyond what was captured on home video recordings. Deeply personal and touching, Crooked Lines Of Beauty is a poetic odyssey that reminds of us of the humanity required to realise architecture worth preserving.