Yield to Total Elation The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli (2000)

Yield to Total Elation explores the life and work of the enigmatic and visionary artist Achilles G Rizzoli A mundane architectural draftsman by day the architectural transcriber of the divine by night Rizzoli created elaborate BeauxArts influenced monuments which would never be built Accompanied by his witty and poignant commentary the drawings served as translations for the voices and the hallucinations that haunted him By deftly weaving Rizzolis words archival footage photos and evocative present day scenes of San Franciscos historic architecture the film tells the story of Rizzolis life and his work an exaltation of architecture as pleasure as memorial as redemption