My Architect
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Preston
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join Bard Builds for our second screening of the semester! We will watch My Architect: A Man's Journey (2003) by Nathaniel Kahn.5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
"There is a built-in poignancy to any story of a son searching for clues to the identity of a father he barely knew. But in the case of Nathaniel Kahn, the illegitimate son of the great architect Louis I. Kahn, who died in 1974, that poignancy has an extra twinge, since this mostly absent father strove so diligently to remain a man of mystery. When Kahn collapsed and died of a heart attack in the men's room at Pennsylvania Station, he had been deemed by some to be the greatest living American architect, but his body remained unidentified for two days. At his death he was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Nathaniel Kahn was 11 at the time, and the personal documentary he has made, "My Architect," is a record of his quest to put together the pieces of his father's compartmentalized life. Kahn, it turned out, juggled three families for many years, one official and two not. He was so secretive about his triple life that many of his colleagues didn't even know he was married." — Stephen Holden, The New York Times
For more information, call 301-787-1680, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Preston