design
5 films tagged with “design”
WALL-E
The first thirty minutes of WALL-E contain almost no dialogue and constitute one of the most precise depictions of work ever put on film. A small robot wakes up, charges his solar panels, puts on his treads, and goes to…
Paprika
The parade is the image that stays. A procession of refrigerators, Shinto gates, tin dolls, daruma figures, brass bands, and household gods marches through Tokyo with the formal logic of a religious festival, and the str…
eXistenZ
Cronenberg's speculative technology is not digital but biological. The game pods in eXistenZ are grown from synthetic amphibian eggs, they connect to the player's spinal cord through an umbilical cord plugged into a surg…
The Hudsucker Proxy
The premise of The Hudsucker Proxy is a board of directors deliberately installing an incompetent man as CEO in order to crash the company's stock price, and the comedy depends on the viewer recognising that this is not…
Playtime
To film a city that does not work for the people inside it, Tati built one. Tativille rose on waste ground outside Paris: glass office blocks on rails so they could be repositioned between shots, streets, traffic lights,…