Maillart's Bridges (2001)
• February 9th, 2001 • 0h 24min
Documentary
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
From the West
Released on: 2016-04-19
Documentary
A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a mo...
Berlin Babylon
Released on: 2001-09-27
Documentary, History
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Amateur
Released on: 2016-08-05
Documentary
The memory of Piero Portaluppi, a Milanese architect who reached the peak of his fame during the 20 ...
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism
Released on: 2016-06-01
Documentary
Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turn...
Ad Astra
Released on: 2015-06-12
Documentary
A visual journey through Norwegian modernist church architecture. A short documentary film that pays...
Mid-Century Moderns: The Homes That Define Palm Springs
Released on: 2013-01-23
Documentary
This documentary film goes beyond the walls and hedges of Mid-Century homes that were built in neigh...
Chambord: The Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Released on: 2018-11-20
Documentary, History, TV Movie
A building lost in the midst of a 5 000 hectare park, that's the equivalent of the surface of Paris,...
Tokyo Ride
Released on: 2020-09-03
Documentary
Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on bo...
Alvar Aalto: A Finnish Architect
Released on: 1972-01-01
Documentary
A portrait of the renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto by the radical experimental fi...
REM
Released on: 2016-09-09
Documentary
Architecture is often seen from the outside, as an inanimate object represented in still imagery. ‘R...
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
Released on: 1888-10-15
Documentary
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...
The Michelangelo Code: Lost Secrets of the Sistine Chapel
Released on: 2008-01-01
Documentary
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak is on the quest to explain exactly what the Sistine Chapel's ceiling ...
Alvar Aalto: Technology and Nature
Released on: 1987-12-28
Documentary
The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is one of the great figures of modern architecture, ra...
Building the Eiffel Tower
Released on: 2024-02-14
Documentary
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two yea...
A Bridge at the Edge of the World
Released on: 2007-10-03
Documentary, History
Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make...
The Living Stones of Sacsayhuamán
Released on: 2014-06-08
Documentary
Sacsayhuamán, an ancient citadel amidst the Peruvian Andes, is an architectural marvel. It was built...
Lewerentz Divine Darkness
Released on: 2024-03-07
Documentary
A cultural-historical portrait of the renowned and enigmatic architect Sigurd Lewerentz, who rarely ...
Abegweit
Released on: 1998-01-01
Documentary
A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to ...