The architect of Building Heaven, Remembering Earth is an invention, and as such he favors the shapelessness of memory and desire over the symmetry of buildings. Fallen from heights unknown, he takes us on a journey to rediscover man's spiritual and intellectual aspirations as they are expressed through the built environment. Beginning with a glimpse of Brueghel's "Tower of Babel," this wild and opinionated essay peruses some of the world's most resonant architectural sites, among them the Pantheon of Rome, Palladio's Rotunda, Renzo Piano's New Metropolis, Barcelona for Gaudi, then Mies van der Rohe, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar, India. Director Hockenhull makes exuberant use of digital video's ability to compose and fragment images. Towering, ornamental, and unyielding structures acquire distorted scale and unexpected malleability. The architect searches for man's identity, trapped between the unpredictability of nature and the rigidity of the constructed environment. Building Heaven, Remembering Earth suggests that somewhere in between chaos and form lies the space of our humanity and, perhaps, a new architecture.