Documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky

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Filmmaker Victor Kosskovsky has been thinking quite a lot about rocks these days. Things like big granite boulders, crushed up gravel and stunning slabs of marble. Not only has he been thinking about rocks, but he also has deeply held convictions about them.

Opinions like “rocks are alive, in a sense,” or that, “ all buildings made of rocks should be beautiful – if nothing else, to honor the rock’s sacrifice.”

He formed those convictions over the last few years when he was making his most recent movie Architecton. It’s a documentary about stone. The film’s about how humans manipulate those elements to create the homes in which we live, the buildings in which we work, and the streets on which we walk.

Victor joins us to talk about all about his new documentary and what made him want to create a film solely about rocks. He also gets into his thoughts on filmmaking and whether or not storytelling is an essential part of the process.