An Engineer Imagines

2020 • 79 minutes

About this movie

A cinematic homage to one of the most distinguished engineers of the late 20th century, An Engineer Imagines traces the extraordinary life and career of Peter Rice from his childhood in Ireland to his work on the Sydney Opera House, The Pompidou Centre and the Lloyd's Building, to his untimely death in 1992. Marcus Robinson uses stunning time-lapse photography and revealing interviews to tell the story of a genius who stood in the shadow of architectural icons. Until now.

Ratings and reviews

An art house love letter and appreciation of the architect Peter Rice. Do you know who he is or anything about his work? If not this movie is probably not for you. The movie is easily four times longer than it really needed to be and almost as informitive as the Wikipedia artical that you can read about him in under five minutes. The benifit of the movie being interviews with family and peers who shared their appriciation of him but in the end did little to illuminate anything about him.