Film Screenings: Lewerentz Divine Darkness

Film screening of Sigurd Lewerentz Divine Darkness (2024) followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Sven Blume.

Sigurd Lewerentz, one of the best-known Swedish architects, did not want to be filmed or interviewed. But in a root cellar in Lund, film reels and audio tapes were discovered that contain interviews with Lewerentz by the architect Bernt Nyberg, made during the last years of Lewerentz’ life. From the cellar, a cultural-historical journey begins, where the stylistic traces of Lewerentz within Nordic architecture become palpable. Classicism and modernism converge in a poetic brutality that awakens our deepest and most archaic cultural memories.