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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. My guest, Victor Kosukovsky, is a filmmaker.

And these days, he's been thinking a lot about rocks. Big granite boulders, crushed up gravel,

stunning slabs of marble. In fact, he hasn't just been thinking about rocks. He also has been developing

opinions about rocks. In fact, opinions might not even be the right word, deeply held

convictions, that rocks are in a sense alive, that buildings made of rocks should be beautiful,

if nothing else to sort of honor the rock's sacrifice.

And that concrete, crushed up rocks, is more or less a blight on the world.

He formed these convictions over the last few years while he was making his new film.

Architecton.

Architecton is a documentary about stone.

It's about how humans manipulate ancient elements to create the homes in which we live,

the buildings in which we work, and the streets on which we walk.

And if I say that it is a documentary about stone and buildings, maybe the movie that pops into your head is like a famous geologist narrating something while he walks down a street

and points meaningfully at things.

And maybe there's an interview with a guy who knows everything about diamonds,

which are fancy rocks.

But Architecton is not that kind of movie.

In Architecton, the subject is the star, and the subject is, again, rocks.

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