This documentary was a very personal work for Nathanial Kahn. Because in My Architect: A Son's Journey, he documents his search for architect Louis Kahn (who created the local Salk Institute among other buildings), but he searches for Louis Kahn, his father, a man who had two mistresses and three children, one from each of the women in his life.
Kahn has both these searches go hand in hand. And while this is not riveting edge of your seat stuff, it is deep and layered and filled with real feelings. Kahn interviews his own mother, and his anger at his father not being a part of their lives is palpable.
But in making this film, Nathanial Kahn seems to find some peace. Some hint of his father's essence in the building he created. Especially in the amazing Capital Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the younger Kahn sees a glimpse of his father, a glimpse that releases some of the frustration that he never knew his dad much at all.
I would not say this is a great film per se. But its strength lies in the journey, a search for identity, a very real search that we happen to join for a couple of hours.
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