On architecture, memory, and moving through landscape

In Bawa’s Garden, director Clara Kraft Isono takes us on a dreamlike journey through Sri Lanka in search of the architect Geoffrey Bawa’s elusive garden at Lunuganga. What begins as a road movie becomes a meditative reflection on architecture’s relationship to landscape, legacy, and time. Blending fiction, documentary, and quiet encounters with people and places shaped by Bawa’s vision, the film unfolds with the same layered elegance as Bawa’s own work—slow, immersive, and deeply attentive to detail.

A film by Clara Kraft Isono

The film will be introduced by landscape architect Jens Linnet, creative director and founding partner of the studio BOGL.

year: 2022, length: 89 min.

Introduction in English, Film in French and English with English subtitles