Learning from Light – 5

More a promotion piece for the Islamic Museum of Qatar, this “documentary” had no modulation, no drama, no perspective and raised more questions than it answered about this project. For starters, how was I.M. Pei selected? Were there any concerns about entrusting this to an architect who would be 91 years old before it was finished? There were so many overheated shots of the same building that by the end I thought it blocky and boring. Worst was the voiceover narration, pitched at the sixth-grade level – maybe because the film is to be used by the Qatari government, presumably for non-native English speakers. [SBIFF]

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